Speaker Johnson Wants to Eliminate District Courts Which Rule Against Trump

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With the fallout over much of the Trump cabinet discussing war plans on Signal Chat at the center of attention, it is easy to overlook other absurdities.

Enter House Speaker Mike Johnson.

Unhappy that District Courts are ruling against President Trump, Speaker Johnson put forward a proposal to abolish these courts.

It violates separation of powers when a judge thinks that they can enjoin something that a president is doing, that the American people voted for.

Well, I suspect a lot of American voters supported expanded overtime pay. But I didn't see Johnson complain when a Texas judge blocked former President Biden's plan to expand overtime pay for millions of American workers. 

Johnson's position has nothing to do with what the American people voted for, but it has everything to do with paying fealty to President Trump. 

The Speaker wants to keep his job and pledging to abolish courts whose judges have the temerity to rule against President Trump will keep Johnson on Trump's good side.

Although such a vote could pass in the House, it would likely die in the Senate. But this probably won't be the last time that Johnson makes such a call especially in light of the fact that Judge James Boasberg, who halted Trump's deportation flights, will preside over the Signal chat lawsuit against Trump officials for the destruction of federal records.

Speaker Johnson is a quisling. He has abdicated Congress' role of keeping checks on Executive power to Elon Musk while subordinating himself to the feet of President Trump. Mike Johnson is a man without self-dignity. And without self-dignity, how can a man without self-dignity serve the interests of the public?

I suppose we can still appeal to a higher court so long as Speaker Johnson hasn't yet abolished them.