Judges placing temporary holds on Trump’s actions may ultimately help him achieve his bigger goals.
A flood of lawsuits against early Trump administration moves, which have led judges to temporarily block Trump’s spending freeze and force health agencies to reinstate pages removed from their websites, have only created opportunities to leave a lasting mark on how the executive branch operates, legal experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
“Ironically, in rushing to trip up Trump, these judges may empower him when all is said and done,” GianCarlo Canaparo, senior legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation’s Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, told the Daily Caller News Foundation, explaining the judges have in some cases “gotten the law and their own power terribly wrong.”
“Not only do I expect they will ultimately be reversed on appeal, but by overreaching they have given Trump exactly the vehicles he wants to overrule some of those old Supreme Court precedents,” Canaparo continued. “And, of course, they’ve teed up a challenge to nationwide injunctions, which the Supreme Court seems ready to abolish.”