President Donald Trump has entered Washington like a bull in a China shop, shattering the Mandarin norms of the administrative state in order to undermine the deep state, but the bureaucrats are fighting back.
A bevy of leftist organizations—mostly unions and woke pressure groups—have proved themselves deep state allies by filing lawsuits to block Trump’s orders, and some have convinced federal judges to issue nationwide injunctions purporting to tie Trump’s hands.
On Monday, six judges blocked his policies, following nine orders in the previous two weeks.
Judges have ordered the administration to halt its freeze on federal spending, to rehire a special counsel, to restore deleted websites, to refrain from giving the Department of Government Efficiency access to federal records, and even to engage in a granular change—to reverse its move to slash to 15% the…
