Activist Judges Blame Trump As Trust In U.S. Judiciary Collapses
Democratic-appointed U.S. judges deliver politicized rulings that anger Americans, then blame Trump. This was the plan all along.
Who is at fault?
It’s easy to blame a dog for biting someone.
But the dog owner also bears responsibility, especially if the owner ignores aggressive behavior or allows the dog to roam free.
This “fault” scenario is playing out in the U.S. Court system, which has declined precipitously in recent years in the court of public opinion.
Bloomberg reports that Senior Judge Paul Friedman, a semi-retired judge in the District of Columbia, said GOP President Donald J. Trump’s personal, “vitriolic” attacks on judges have led to rising judicial threats. Friedman, who was nominated by former President Bill Clinton, made the remarks at the annual meeting of the Academy of Court-Appointed Neutrals in Berkeley, California.
There might be something to that. However, Friedman does not acknowledge the judicial system’s role in its own fraught situation.
The Abrego Garcia Case
In the internet age, it is obvious to many that Democratic nominated federal judges have issued a stream of highly politicized decisions.
Just last week, U.S. District Judge Waverly Crenshaw in Nashville, Tennessee — a nominee of former Democratic President Barack Obama — dismissed human smuggling/conspiracy charges against Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia. He ruled the prosecution was vindictive because it was brought in retaliation for Garcia’s successful legal challenge to his wrongful March 2025 deportation to El Salvador. Crenshaw dismissed the charges.
The dismissal was the culmination of years of costly and questionable litigation on Garcia’s behalf.
The high point was in April 2025 when the U.S. Supreme Court agreed that Garcia’s deportation to El Salvador in March 2025 was illegal because he was subject to an earlier federal court withholding order that forbid his removal to El Salvador. The Court ordered the government to facilitate Garcia’s return, and directed the case to proceed “as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to El Salvador.”
Eventually Garcia’s case ended up before U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis of Maryland, who is also an Obama nominee. She ruled that the government lacked any authority whatsoever for Garcia’s arrest and deportation and called the government’s actions “grievous error that shocks the conscience.”
In response, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) secured a criminal indictment of Garcia from an independent federal grand jury in Tennessee. The indictment charged him with conspiracy to transport aliens and unlawful transportation of undocumented aliens. It is that indictment that Crenshaw has now dismissed.
There is ample evidence in the García case.
