Activist judges have courted disaster with abusive nationwide injunctions to stop policies they don’t like.
Unlike the executive and legislative branches, the courts have only their reputation to give them power. With the recent spate of overzealous universal injunctions, some prominent members of Congress are threatening to intervene.
It was only a matter of time. Activist judges in lower-level courts are pulling a reverse Marbury v. Madison. They are directly challenging the power of the executive and legislative branches, claiming power they don’t have, and are paralyzing the proper function of federal government.
The Supreme Court has in the past called universal injunctions proper in only under the most “extraordinary” circumstances. Now, activist judges are making them ordinary and are creating a crisis of their own making.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa,…
