Yesterday, federal judge Paul Engelmayer, a Democrat, issued a temporary restraining order barring the Trump administration from getting access to its own Treasury Department’s documents. The injunction applies to all political appointees, which includes the Secretary of the Treasury. It was issued ex parte, which means the government was not even heard in opposition.
Judge-shopping is pretty much universal in politically-charged cases. We can expect much more of this: Democrats will bring lawsuits in front of friendly judges, seeking to enjoin various actions by the nascent Trump administration. In most cases, those orders (like the one just issued by Engelmayer) will be reversed on appeal, but that is acceptable to the Democrats. What they are really trying to do is perpetuate a narrative that, in pretty much everything it does, the Trump administration is acting “illegally.” What law is being violated, is rarely specified.
Elon Musk explains what the Democrats find so terrifying:
But of course, the Democrats don’t want it addressed. They like corruption. Corruption is the life’s blood of their party, and they will fight tooth and nail to preserve their “right” to it.
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