Two things can be true. Trump may be exceeding his Constitutional authority in some of his executive orders–that is a matter for serious lawyers and jurists to debate and happens in every presidency–and also that there is an obvious judicial insurrection taking place in which judges declare that any decision they disapprove of is unconstitutional.
Legal challenges to presidential actions are a normal part of the back-and-forth the Founders built into the checks and balances of the federal government. Judicial review as a principle was established shortly after our government was implemented, and in the main, that has been a good thing. Power corrupts and all that.
But the current argument that Trump is abusing his power by fighting back against obvious judicial overreach is based on a false premise that judges get to make up the law and the meaning of…
