The unprecedented levels of lawfare we are witnessing against President Trump is the third coup attempt against the duly elected President of the United States by the powerful, unelected entrenched in our vast government.
The first attempt, the Russian collusion hoax, lasted three years and was cooked up by the intelligence community, primarily the FBI. It successfully damaged Trump for three years of his first term as it gave the media a relentlessly negative narrative and distracted the administration. It was not stopped until Attorney General William Barr ended it when the findings came up goose eggs, and he dismantled the office of special counsel.
Barr then created an investigation that found that "law enforcement and intelligence apparatus of this country were involved in advancing a false and utterly baseless Russian collusion narrative against this president." It was finally dead, except where it lives on in the fever swamps of the MSNBC left.
The second attempt was the reaction to Covid, sometimes called the Scamdemic. Trump was cruising to reelection in February 2020 on the strength of a strong economy and a relatively peaceful world. It looked like a blowout. Then the Chinese virus hit, and the health bureaucracy led by Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, saw their opportunity. Both men had been in their positions for decades and the entire health care establishment cadre immediately violated the long-standing procedure for dealing with an airborne coronavirus outbreak in the United States.
They pushed for complete shutdowns of businesses, schools, and the nation as a whole. Trump's roaring economy—and people really do vote with their pocketbooks—came to a screeching standstill as unemployment soared, disrupted supply chains created unheard-of shortages on the shelves, children were stuck inside 24/7, and the rest of the insanities that gripped America through health "experts." People were not happy with the state of the country. With the ridiculous and illegal expansion of mail-in voting, Trump's reelection was doomed.
The permanent bureaucracy was at least partially successful in the first coup by crippling Trump's agenda and ultimately successful in the second by creating the circumstances to remove him from office. They would have continued, except they were eventually directly pushed back on and stopped as the COVID-19 policy fever broke and Americans slowly woke up.
Now, with his resounding victory in November and a clear mandate, the unelected are running a third coup attempt. This time, it is through the courts, as district judges are issuing nationwide injunctions on administration policies like steroidal Barry Bonds cracking home runs.
There are nearly 700 district court judges in the United States. For structural understanding, those judges are below appellate courts, who in turn are below the Supreme Court. What has mushroomed is judge shopping, where partisan lawyers seek out the most friendly partisan judges, usually those in deep blue jurisdictions. And when they find a few, they file case after case with them.
This did not start with Trump, but it went supersonic with Trump. President George W. Bush was hit with six nationwide injunctions in his eight years. President Obama received 12 injunctions during his eight-year administration, a record at the time, and President Biden had 14. However, according to a Harvard Law Review study, President Trump faced 64 in his first term. In February of this year, Trump was hit with 15 nationwide injunctions on practically every campaign promise he kept — more in one short month than Biden had in four years or Obama and Bush in eight years.
More than 90 percent of Trump's injunctions were issued by a district judge appointed by a Democratic president, according to a Harvard study. All 12 of the injunctions stopping Biden were issued by a judge appointed by a Republican president. So we've had a slight problem with district judges that has ballooned into an actual Constitutional crisis — not the fake one the left keeps screaming about — because either the chief executive has authority over the executive branch, or we have nearly 700 mini presidents actually running the show. It cannot be the latter.
This is straight-up a judicial coup to expunge the will of the American people, as expressed last November. Note that all three of these attempts were direct violations of the results of democratic elections, yet with audacious contempt for the truth, all have been claimed as necessary to save democracy. This latest attempt must be smacked with every weapon available on every front.
On the legislative front, two bills in the U.S. Senate seek to stop the nationwide injunctions.
Sen. Mike Lee of Utah has filed legislation that would check these magisterial district judges. The Restraining Judicial Insurrectionists Act of 2025 would create a three-judge panel to oversee district judge rulings that seek to block actions from the executive branch, most notably executive orders. The Supreme Court's Chief Justice would choose the judges on these panels.
"America's government cannot function if the legitimate orders of our Commander in Chief can be overridden at the whim of a single district court judge," Lee said. "We have seen them presume to run the military, the civil service, foreign aid, and HR departments across the Executive Branch — blatantly unconstitutional overreach."
Sen. Josh Hawley introduced a bill named the Nationwide Injunction Abuse Prevention Act of 2025. He said it is intended to "end liberal judges' serial abuse of power" from the district bench. "Unelected district judges are usurping the authority of a duly-elected president and dictating national policy for 330 million Americans," Hawley said. "Congress must stop this unconstitutional weaponization of the judiciary."
Legislation such as those proposed by Lee and Hawley is necessary, but it is only one prong. After all, if one of these managed to get through the Senate and House and signed into law by President Trump, it is not impossible to see one of the 700 district judges, carefully selected, issuing a nationwide injunction against a law banning their authority to do that.
So there also needs to be an air war, one in which the reasonable American people — not the lost ones fire-bombing Teslas — are made fully aware and invigorated to support the fight back, to take back what the courts wrongfully took as their own.
Because they are all under attack, President Trump and his administration should be seen by reasonable Americans as champions of the people, looking out for Americans, not authoritarian systems. While the legislation is winding its way through the process that Democrats will turn to sludge, and while lawyers argue legal niceties and finer points of canon, the American people need to know we are still a representative republic. Our representatives are fighting for us against those who would usurp the people's will.
This is a battle to determine if we are still a nation governed by "we the people" or by us the unelected, lifetime-appointed, black-robed judges. Remember, the courts are the only one of the three branches that are not elected, which is why our wise Founding Fathers made it the weakest branch. But we have watched it turn into the most powerful branch, one on which there is no check, the one that has said of itself: We are the final authority.
