Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) suggested over the weekend that the United States was in a constitutional crisis because President Donald Trump has spoken out strongly against a federal judge who has opposed the administration’s efforts to deport illegal aliens who are part of Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan terrorist organization. Schumer made the remarks during a Sunday interview on NBC News’ “Meet The Press” with Kristen Welker. “This week, the president called to impeach a judge who ruled against him on deportations of alleged Venezuelan gang members,” Welker said. “Supreme Court Justice John Roberts released a rare statement, rebuking the idea of using impeachment to settle judicial disagreements.” “Some constitutional scholars and fellow Democrats, Leader Schumer, say this is a constitutional crisis,” she continued. “Do you agree? Is the United States in a constitutional crisis?” Schumer responded: “Yes, I do, Kristen. And democracy is at risk. Look, Donald Trump is a lawless, angry man.” “He thinks he should be king,” he continued. “He thinks he should do whatever he wants, regardless of the law, and he thinks judges should just listen to him. Now we have to fight that back in every single way. And we actually have had over 100 cases in the courts where we’ve had a very good record of success. So Donald Trump, infuriated by that success, said judges should be impeached. Let me tell Donald Trump and the American people, Democrats in the Senate will not impeach judges. Full stop.” Schumer said he does not believe Trump when the president says that he will not defy court orders. “I don’t trust him. We have to watch him like a hawk,” he said. “Defying court orders is why our democracy is at risk and we’ll have to do everything to fight back in that regard.” WATCH: Chuck Schumer says "democracy is at risk" because President Trump deported illegal immigrant members of the brutal Tren de Aragua gang to El Salvador. Why are Democrats so bent on defending illegal immigrant killers, rapists, and gang members? pic.twitter.com/MxG2Uvn9D4 — Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) March 23, 2025

National Security Adviser Mike Waltz shared details over the weekend about some of the targets that the United States military has hit during its campaign to establish deterrence and to eliminate the Houthis’ ability to launch attacks from Yemen on international shipping lanes in the Red Sea. Waltz made the remarks during a Sunday interview on CBS News’ “Face The Nation” with Margaret Brennan when asked what the United States has achieved. “We have taken out key Houthi leadership, including their head missileer,” Waltz said. “We have hit their headquarters. We have hit communications nodes, weapons factories, and even some of their over-the-water drone production facilities just in the last couple of days.” “President Trump has decided to hit the Houthis and hit them hard, as opposed to, in the last administration, where literally weeks or months would go by with these kind of one-off pinprick attacks,” he continued. “And, as a result, we have had one of the world’s most critical sea lanes get shut down.” Waltz said that the Iranian-backed Houthis were like “al Qaeda or ISIS with advanced cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, and some of the most sophisticated air defenses, all provided by Iran.” He said that United States merchant and naval ships have repeatedly been attacked in the Red Sea over the last year and a half and that Trump is determined to end it. “Keeping the sea lanes open, keeping trade and commerce open is a fundamental aspect of our national security. The last administration was not effective,” he said. “The Trump administration and President Trump have decided to do something much harder, much tougher, and much more effective.” WATCH: .@MikeWaltz47 on strikes against Houthi terrorists in the Red Sea: “75% of our U.S.-flagged shipping now has to go around the southern coast of Africa rather than going through the Suez Canal. Keeping the sea lanes open, keeping trade and commerce open, is a fundamental aspect of… pic.twitter.com/p3Ou1FbF1j — Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) March 23, 2025

Get 'em, Billy

The Left couldn’t defeat President Donald Trump at the ballot box. Now, their only hope seems to be defeating him at the courthouse. More than 130 cases have been filed against the Trump administration since Trump’s return to office just two months ago. With the help of activist federal judges, the Left’s large-scale lawfare operation has caused some setbacks for the administration, which helps explain why its ire has been focused on these lower court judges’ use of temporary restraining orders.  Nevertheless, as the administration prepares for another active week in court defending the president’s powers and the president’s efforts to shrink the size of government and end DEI, it is not without its own court victories. As of late, the Trump administration has earned favorable rulings regarding the dismissal of federal officers, employees, and contractors—part of Trump’s effort to “drain the swamp.” One favorable ruling came on Feb. 20, when a D.C. district court judge blocked a TRO request on Trump’s firing of probationary employees in National Treasury Employees Union v. Donald J. Trump et al. Judge Christopher R. Cooper denied the request brought by the NTEU and four other unions because the court “likely lacks subject matter jurisdiction” in the matter.  Instead, the unions will have to file their complaints with the Federal Labor Relations Authority, which has Congressional authority to review such matters under the Federal Service Labor-Management Relations Statute.  DOGE has been a major focal point in legal efforts to upend the Trump administration’s agenda. Wherever DOGE goes, lawsuits tend to follow. Though the Left has attempted to prevent DOGE from accessing large swaths of the federal government, DOGE is steadily increasing its footprint. In four separate cases, however, courts have upheld DOGE’s access to government systems as it attempts to identify, expose, and eliminate government waste, fraud, and abuse of American taxpayer dollars. Court victories have expanded DOGE’s access to the Department of Treasury, Department of Education, Department of Labor, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and other agencies. The flurry of litigation over DOGE’s actions against USAID, the agency that now serves as the administration’s poster child for taxpayer waste, fraud, and abuse, has led to a series of seemingly conflicting court orders. While a March 18 ruling in a U.S. district court ordered the restoration of USAID electronic systems to certain employees and a halt on reductions-in-force, a previous court order in Personal Services Contractors Association v. Trump sided with the administration’s effort to fire contractors. On March 6, U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols denied a TRO request that would have reinstated fired contractors. Despite bureaucrat bellyaching, the D.C. district court ruled President Trump was well within his rights to fire USAID contractors and place USAID employees on administrative leave. Personal Services Contractors Association v. Trump is just one of the many cases challenging a crucial part of the Trump administration’s DOGE strategy: the removal of nonessential, nonproductive personnel across federal agencies. Such was the case in AFGE v. Ezell et al. While other lawsuits against the Trump administration challenged the president’s authority to fire federal workers outright, plaintiffs sought to challenge whether the administration even had the right to offer federal workers an exceedingly generous buyout. Massachusetts district court ruled that the administration’s attempt to buy out federal employees was lawful. The U.S. Institute for Peace has also found itself in DOGE’s crosshairs. On Feb. 19, Trump signed Executive Order 14217, titled “Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy.” With his signature, Trump ordered USIP to be “eliminated to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law.” In the opinion of the administration, however, the federally-funded think tank failed to comply with the executive order, forcing the Trump administration to take aggressive action against USIP leadership, who had internally organized and coordinated resistance to the administration even prior to the Feb. 19 executive order. The conflict hit a boiling point as law enforcement had to assist Trump administration officials and DOGE staffers into the USIP building on March 17. Terminated USIP employees almost immediately sued the administration, filing a complaint the following day that alleged the president lacked authority over USIP because it was created by Congress. The plaintiffs also requested a TRO to have their positions reinstated and lost salaries refunded. The D.C. district court denied the USIP employee’s TRO request, suggesting it was unclear whether the plaintiffs would succeed on the merits of their case. Lawfare was the Left’s favored strategy to deny Trump’s return to the White House. They’d be wise to remember what that got them. The post Trump Racking Up Important Legal Victories as Left’s Lawfare Ramps Up appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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