Are the Courts Now Officially Running the Trump Administration?

By Cliff Kincaid

June 8, 2025

It was sad to see President Trump bow to the will of liberal judges and bring back a terrorist gang member from El Salvador so he can “enjoy” the benefits of the American justice system and become a cause célèbre for the communist left.

Who knows how many thousands of dollars will now be spent to try to keep him in prison. Meanwhile, liberals are laughing their heads off, as they revel in the glee flowing from the liberal court takeover of the Trump Administration.

No matter how much spin Laura Ingraham and other “conservatives” put on the case, this was a devastating defeat for the American people and their hope that in November 2024 they voted for a president who would keep them free from criminals and terrorists. Instead of fighting the courts and asserting his presidential power, Trump’s legal advisers, from Attorney general Pam Bondi on down, decided to salute the unelected judges who ordered the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

I almost threw up watching Ingraham’s show on Friday night, where she gave Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche several minutes of free air time to insist that somehow the Trump Administration did not capitulate to the liberal Judicial dictatorship in bringing Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to America to stand trial on various criminal charges.

Even worse, Ingraham brought on the tough-talking milquetoast legal “expert” Mike Davis to defend the administration and attack the Democrats. In this case, the Democrats won – and they won big. They succeeded and Trump’s legal team lost. This is because they suffer from an alien ideology and a fringe legal theory that American courts have veto power over what the executive branch does in foreign policy.

In times like this, it is important for MAGA and Trump supporters in general to understand how their elected president, elected by more than 70 million people, fell victim to the unelected judges who claim to rule America. We all wanted to support President Trump’s deportation policy and get these criminals out of our midst. But we are now going to foot the bill for their lengthy trials where they most likely will be set free due to high-priced legal talent paid for by George Soros, or perhaps American taxpayers.

At a time of intense debate over Trump’s expensive “Big Beautiful” bill and its border security provisions, which we were told would facilitate the ouster of these criminals and terrorists, we now learn that every criminal and terrorist will now get his “day” in court, a process that could cost millions of dollars and perpetuate the bankruptcy of the nation. This is the cost of what the Trump Administration will have to do, now that it has complied with the court orders in these deportation cases.

What I am talking about, as you may have heard, is that the lightweight Attorney General Bondi announced charges against Abrego Garcia on Friday, to justify compliance with court orders that brought him back from that El Salvador prison. It was total capitulation by the Trump Administration. She announced the charges in a vain attempt to justify capitulation to the courts. The charges are Alien Smuggling and Conspiracy to Commit Alien Smuggling in violation of Title 8, U.S. Code 1324.

Whether he remains in prison pending trial or not, this was a major setback in the Trump Administration’s professed desire to get these people out of our country.

Ingraham has always been eager to follow the Trump Administration’s twists and turns, to please Bondi, Blanche, ad nauseum, but there is no reason for Trump’s MAGA supporters to be happy with this. In this one critical decision, President Trump looks weak, very weak. If the courts can order him around on this, there is no end to the damage they can do. He might as well abdicate his office and let the judicial branch take over the duties of the executive.

For four years, Joe Biden was said to be president when we know he was only a figurehead, a ghost. Now with Trump, it looks like we have seen the transfer of presidential authority to the courts. Even worse, Trump acceded to this transfer of his authority.

What the Fox News stars will try to do is convince us that the Democrats are to be feared if they return to power. But the Democrats are already in power through their power in the courts, and Trump will not challenge their power. It is sad but true.

E-Mail Cliff Kincaid: kincaid@comcast.net