It’s time to rein in the 85+ rogue judges who think they can define American government and the will of the people without ever facing a vote by the people themselves. — David Q. Walker, author, 101 Reasons NOT to Vote for Democrats (from which this listing was originally excerpted)
Judge Adam Abelson — Granted a preliminary injunction against the federal government on a DEI appeal.
Judge Lynn Adelman — Long-time liberal activist judge.
Judge Amir Ali — Order the federal government to funnel $2 billion to NGOs that bankroll liberal programs abroad.
Judge Loren Alikhan — Entered a TRO against the federal government’s temporary pause on grants, loans, and assistance to nonprofits.
Judge William Alsup — Granted a preliminary injunction against the federal government for terminating probationary employees.
Judge Wendy Beetlestone — Dismissed the lawsuit of a teen girl who was forced to compete against a transgender male athlete. Also vacated religious exemptions from providing contraception to workers. “Judge Beetlestone waited five years to issue this decision—without even holding a hearing on the constitutional issues at stake.”
Judge Marsha S. Berzon — Ruled that a temporary restraining order barring ICE agents from enforcing the law.
Judge Deborah Boardman — Imposed a nationwide injunction blocking the federal government from ending birthright citizenship for children born to undocumented residents.
Judge James Boasberg — Found the federal government in contempt to deporting TdA-designated gang members. Has continued to rule against the federal government in a number of other cases.
Judge Ed Bogle — Set the parents’ bond at $1.5 million after their child was killed by a car while walking to a store two blocks away from their home.
Judge Charles Breyer — Ordered the federal government to return control of the National Guard back to California, saying the call-up was illegal.
Judge Timothy Brooks — Blocked Arkansas schools from displaying the Ten Commandments in schools.
Judge Randie Bruno — Released an illegal alien who decapitated a woman—after his first court appearance!
Judge Yvette Bryant — Allowed a vicious attacker of two old men off with no jail time, although he was convicted of two counts of second-degree assault.
Judge Allison Burroughs — Enjoined the Department of Education from implementing a rate cap policy on indirect cost reimbursement for research institutions.
Judge Jose Cano — Resigned after Homeland Security found Tren De Aragua gang member at his home.
Judge Gregory Carro — Dropped the terrorism charges against a man who shot another man in the back for political reasons.
Judge Edward Chen — Issued an order challenging the DHS revocation of Temporary Protected Status for immigrants.
Judge Tanya Chutkan — Denied the federal government’s attempt to cancel federal grants to nonprofits.
Judge Jia Cobb — Entered a TRO ordering the federal government to postpone the termination date the Student and Exchange Visitor Program for foreigners. Also stayed the deportation of many illegal immigrants.
Judge Brian M. Cogan — Blocked the federal government from ending temporary legal status for 500,000 Haitians.
Judge Christopher Cooper — Granted a preliminary injunction against the federal government on DOGE activity.
Judge Geoffrey Crawford — Entered a TRO prohibiting the removal of full-time student and protestor Mahdawi from Vermont.
Judge Susan Crawford — Won a likely illegal race for the Wisconsin supreme court.
Judge Patrick DeAlmeida — Denied young people the right to appeal because they didn’t have standing since they didn’t have a gun carry permit (which they can’t get until they are 21).
Judge James Donato — Issued an injunction stopping the federal government from ending union bargaining for federal workers.
Judge Melissa DuBose — Blocked the federal government’s reorganization and cost-cutting efforts at the Department of Health and Human Services.
Judge Hannah Dugan — Arrested for concealing an illegal immigrant from discovery and arrest by ICE. “That is textbook obstruction,” said CNN’s Elie Honig legal analyst.
Judge Arthur Engoron — Presided over the bogus charges of fraud against presidential candidate Donald Trump. Made so many biased decisions during that trial.
Judge Michael Farbiarz — Challenged the removal from the U.S. of illegal alien Mahmoud Khalil.
Judge William Fletcher — Ruled that those in ICE detention must be paid minimum wage.
Judge Paul Friedman — Granted preliminary injunction to enjoin the federal government’s rescission of collective bargaining agreements for federal employees.
Judge Dabney Friedrich — Issued a preliminary injunction barring the federal government from enforcing a requirement that state educational agencies must certify compliance on DEI-related programming.
Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong — Blocked virtually all raids executed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement across several counties in southern California.
Judge Gordon Gallagher — Blocked the federal government from deporting the wife and five children of Boulder terrorist Mohamed Soliman.
Judge Stephanie Gallagher — Granted a preliminary injunction against the federal government’s implementation regarding DEI-related educational programming.
Judge Ronald M. Gould — Ruled that a temporary restraining order barring ICE agents from enforcing the law.
Judge Patricia Guerrero — Denied a plea to stop an illegal Democrat ploy to gerrymander California districts even more.
Judge Jessica Hedges — Ordered the suspect behind the firebombing of a Tesla dealership released from federal custody.
Judge Ellen Hollander — Denied the federal government’s motion to stay a preliminary injunction challenging disclosure of personal financial records to DOGE.
Judge Barbara Holmes — Set free the illegal alien Maryland man.
Judge Beryl Howell — Ruled that the president of the United States does not have the power to pull security clearances from private law firms. She also forced an attorney to testify against his client, despite attorney-client privilege.
Howell drips with disdain for the firms who capitulated to the White House and says of those who resisted “will be the models lauded when this period of American history is written.” — Kyle Cheney tweet
Judge Susan Illston — Issued a temporary restraining order halting implementation of the executive order to reorganize 20 federal agencies, including the Departments of State, Treasury, and Veterans Affairs.
Judge Monica Isham — Announced that she had no intention of working Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Judge Amy Berman Jackson — Issued an order suspending the federal government’s proposed reduction in force dismantling the CFPB.
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson — One of three liberal Supreme Court justices who voted to keep transgenders in the U.S. military. Also a judge who can’t define what a woman is.
Judge Lindsay Jenkins — Threw out the federal government’s bid to force Illinois and Chicago to aid its deportation agenda.
Judge Michael Jesic — Resentenced the Menendez brothers, thus paving the way for the parent killers to be paroled.
Judge Myong Joun — Blocked the government from carrying out the mass-firing at the Department of Education and ordered any employees who were already fired be reinstated.
Judge Elena Kagan — One of three liberal Supreme Court justices who voted to keep transgenders in the U.S. military.
Judge Lewis A. Kaplan — Presided over a farce of a trial against Donald Trump that resulted in bad judgment in E. Jean Carroll’s specious suit. Also ruled against the federal government in illegal immigrant treatment in Manhattan.
Judge Lauren King — Entered a preliminary injunction on the federal government’s ban on gender-affirming care for young people under the age of 19.
Judge Julie Kobick — Enjoined the federal government from requiring that passports reflect the biological sex of the person (rather than gender identity).
Judge Lucy Koh — She was a COVID lockdown judge.
Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly — Blocked a presidential order requiring proof of citizenship to vote in national elections (which is actually a law Trump was simply implementing).
Judge Royce Lamberth — Granted preliminary injunction enjoining the federal government from dismantling the United States Agency for Global Media.
Judge Joseph LaPlante — Certified a nationwide class aimed at blocking the effects of Trump’s birthright citizenship order.
Judge J. Travis Laster — Caught in a group chat with entities backed by the Chinese Communist Party.
Judge Richard Leon — Declared Trump’s executive order targeting law firm WilmerHale unconstitutional.
Judge Rita Lin — Vacated the NSF suspension of grants to UCLA.
Judge Matthew Maddox — Ordered the reinstatement of 3 board members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission. He was overruled by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Judge Jessica Mayer — Denied young people the right to appeal because they didn’t have standing since they didn’t have a gun carry permit (which they can’t get until they are 21).
Judge Landya McCafferty — Issued a preliminary injunction barring the federal government from implementing its letter regarding DEI-related educational programming.
Judge John J. McConnell, Jr., — Ordered the government that it must abide by the injunction to halt its funding freeze.
Before he was put on the bench, this Judge McConnell gave $700,000 to Democrat campaigns and committees. — Matt Whitlock tweet
Judge Juan Merchan — Presided over a very prejudiced trial of Donald Trump that ultimately found him guilty of 34 fake felonies.
Judge Randolph D. Moss — Ruled that a presidential order regarding illegal alien removal exceeded presidential authority.
Judge Brian Murphy — Issued a TRO challenging the deportation of illegal alien criminals to a third country.
Judge Tamara Needles — Lowered the bond to $7,000 from $1.2 million for an illegal alien accused of intoxicated manslaughter.
Judge Carl J. Nichols — Issued a temporary restraining order halting the federal government’s attempt to place USAID employees on administrative leave.
Judge Araceli Martinez Olguin — Denied the federal government’s motion to stay her TRO challenging termination of funding for legal services for unaccompanied immigrant children.
Judge William Orrick III — Blocked a presidential order to withhold federal funding from sanctuary cities and states, which harbor and protect illegal aliens.
Judge Cornelia Pillard — Dissented in a Court of Appeals victory for the federal government.
Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers — Issued an injunction against Apple to stop collecting massive fees on payments made outside the App Store.
Judge Mary Rosado — Barred the opening of an ICE center on Rikers Island.
Judge Lisa Rose — Denied young people the right to appeal because they didn’t have standing since they didn’t have a gun carry permit (which they can’t get until they are 21).
Judge William Sessions — Ordered that he would retain jurisdiction on protestor Rumeysa Ozturk’s removal from the U.S.
Judge Benjamin Settle — Issued a preliminary injunction against the federal government’s effort to challenge transgender people from serving in the military.
Judge William Smith — Blocked the Department of Homeland Security from cutting off Federal Emergency Management Agency funds to sanctuary states that refuse to cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan — Ruled that Media Matters could organize advertising boycott campaigns against X.com as a First Amendment right.
Judge Sonia Sotomayor — One of three liberal Supreme Court justices who voted to keep transgenders in the U.S. military.
Judge Teresa Stokes — The last judge to release a homeless, violent schizophrenic, Decarlos Brown, Jr., who killed a Ukrainian refuge in North Carolina.
Judge Jennifer Sung — Ruled that a temporary restraining order barring ICE agents from enforcing the law.
Judge Indira Talwani — Blocked DHS from enforcing the March 25 termination policy.
Judge Trina Thompson — Accused members of the federal government of racial bias while postponing the removal of TPS holders.
Judge Jennifer Thurston — Blocked Border Patrol agents from arresting suspected illegal aliens without a warrant.
Judge Jon Tigar — Blocked the federal government from enforcing anti-diversity and anti-transgender executive orders.
Judge Jeffrey White — Blocked the government from ending legal status for foreign students attending schools in the US.
Judge Jamal Whitehead — Ordered the government to bring roughly 12,000 unvetted refugees to the United States.
Judge Kathleen Williams — Ordered Florida to stop the enforcement of their recent law allowing misdemeanor charges for illegal aliens who enter Florida to evade immigration authorities. Also halted construction projects on Alligator Alcatraz detention facility.
Judge Paula Xinis — Issued a temporary restraining order challenging the removal of an MS-13 gang member and illegal alien to El Salvado, aka the Maryland father and spouse abuser.
Judge William Young — Ordered the federal government to revive canceled grants to the National Institutes of Health and other entities that employ DEI practices.
Many of these federal judges who have issued injunctions are themselves flawed, based on procedure. — Adam Turner, columnist, RedState
To consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions [is] a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. Our judges are as honest as other men and not more so. They have with others the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps. — Thomas Jefferson, U.S. president
And here’s what makes this all the more dangerous—when a President exceeds his authority, the voters can choose a new President after four years. When Congress goes too far, the people can vote them out. But judges? Judges are unelected. They serve for life. And when they impose their politics from the bench, there is no democratic check. No accountability. — Ted Cruz, U.S. senator
Honest question: how do Dems know when to ignore the courts and when to claim judicial infallibility? — Mike Lee tweet
When District Judges create out of thin air the right to impose nationwide injunctions against presidential decisions, or start making policies that are clearly outside their remit, they are destroying the Constitutional order. — David Strom, columnist, Hot Air
Judges wear robes, not capes. If judges take off their judicial robes and climb into the political arena and throw political punches, they should expect to receive a political knockout. — Mike Davis, founder, Article III Project
I think some of these judges believe they are beyond and above the law — and they are not. — Pam Bondi, attorney general
It’s time to put a stop to these Liberal district judges with their treasonous ways! — The American Patriot FB post
If these lower court judges continue their rampage, the administration is going to start ignoring their orders, and once that happens, the cat can never be put back in the bag. — Bonchie, columnist, RedState
We have suffered the biggest invasion in the history of the United States. It’s an attack on democracy and a constitutional crisis. It is the DUTY of the President to decide how to repel such an incursion on our sovereignty, not a random district court judge. — Scott Jennings, CNN commentator
Democrats and leftist groups like the ACLU have sued the Trump administration for virtually everything he and his team have tried to do in his second stint in the office, and lower-court judges have frequently been jumping in and making sweeping decisions that many critics think are far out of their purview. — Bob Hoge, columnist, RedState
t’s a judicial coup. It’s time to impeach judges participating in this judicial coup or dissolve these district courts. They’re hamstringing the functions of the executive that are not within their purview. — Matt Vespa, columnist, Townhall
Where are the guardrails on the judicial branch where activist judges think they’re justified in completely controlling the executive branch? — Jack Hellner, contributor, American Thinker
A left-wing legal group with the misleading name Democracy Forward is proving to be the biggest obstacle to translating President Donald Trump’s massive election victory into real change. … It sues the Trump administration repeatedly, venue shopping for sympathetic district court judges — the lowest on the totem pole — who will act as stooges, issuing national injunctions to halt Trump’s agenda, never mind how flimsy or outright false the legal claims are. — Betsy McCaughey, columnist, Townhall
Power is the great evil with which we are contending. We have divided power between three branches of government and erected checks and balances to prevent abuse of power. However, where is the check on the power of the judiciary? If we fail to check the power of the judiciary, I predict that we will eventually live under judicial tyranny. — Patrick Henry, patriot
Simply put, the patriots of 1776 did not rebel against the tyranny of King George III only to subject themselves, many generations later, to the black-robed tyranny of today. They fought for the ability to live freely and self-govern, and to thereby control their own fates and destinies. Judicial supremacy and the concomitant misguided practice of “nationwide” injunctions necessarily deprive a free people of the ability to do exactly that. — Josh Hammer, contributor, Hot Air
It sues the Trump administration repeatedly, venue shopping for sympathetic district court judges—the lowest on the totem pole—who will act as stooges, issuing national injunctions to halt Trump’s agenda, never mind how flimsy or outright false the legal claims are. — Betsy McCaughey, founder, SaveNYC.org
It’s a big win for the Trump Team, which has seen more than its fair share of busybody judges telling them they are not allowed to run the executive branch as they see fit. — Bob Hoge, columnist, RedState
You’re district judges, you goobers. Take a seat and shut up. Trump has done well not to take the bait and ignore the rulings, though I feel he should. He’s opted to do what he planned likely from day one when he met the legions of whacko jurists and lawyers who were set on stopping him: appeal all the things. — Matt Vespa, columnist, Townhall
Trump is fighting a cartel of vile, corrupt and far-left judges trying to kill his campaign promises. — Miranda Devine
A low level judge is once again pretending like they’re President. — Nick Sortor tweet
As I wrote Thursday, “it’s another day ending in ‘Y,’” so of course there’s another TRO against the Trump administration. I wonder what they’ll block tomorrow? — Bob Hoge, columnist, RedState
The Founding Fathers would be appalled at this judicial overreach. They created three co-equal branches of government — not a judicial oligarchy where unelected judges can override the president’s lawful authority at will. What we’re seeing now is nothing short of a constitutional crisis. — Matt Margolis, columnist, PJ Media
I just got done earlier bemoaning the fact that every day seems to bring news of some federal judge kicking sand into the Trump administration’s gears. It does seem like we’ve been covering an abundance of such stories. And an awful lot of them don’t seem to go the administration’s way. — Susie Moore, deputy managing editor, RedState
The judicial coup against President Donald Trump has been nothing short of remarkable. It’s also incredibly disturbing. Unelected crackpot district judges are far exceeding their authority, trying to dictate to the executive on matters of policy they have zero bearing on. — Matt Vespa, columnist, Townhall
What we’re witnessing is the rise of judicial lawfare from the bench. One unelected district judge—sitting in a courtroom in San Francisco or Boston or Baltimore—can now issue a nationwide injunction that ties the hands of the President of the United States. That’s not law. That’s judicial tyranny. — Ted Cruz, U.S. senator
The question whether the judges are invested with exclusive authority to decide on the constitutionality of a law has been heretofore a subject of consideration with me in the exercise of official duties. Certainly there is not a word in the Constitution which has given that power to them more than to the Executive or Legislative branches. — Thomas Jefferson, U.S. president
When someone is in the White House that you agree with and someone gets a universal injunction against him, you don’t like universal injunctions. You called them, ‘judges acting like they’re politicians in robes and judges looking like crass political actors.’ But now that President Trump’s in the White House—who you dislike—you think that universal injunctions taste like pumpkin pie. — John Kennedy, U.S. senator
Even though no one was found to have requisite standing to challenge the 2020 election results in court, we’re seeing a new legal philosophy in play under President Trump where anyone has standing to challenge any act by the administration. — Streiff, columnist, RedState
Dems know there really is no such thing as a “Republican” judge. There are judges who uphold the law and Constitution, and Democrat judges. Dem judges are far more likely to enact Dem political preferences, while Republican judges won’t. It is this upon which Dems depend. Dem immorality ensures a two-tiered justice system. — Mike McDaniel, columnist, American Thinker
A party with less than 20% approval is using unelected judges to deny the will of the American people. — C3 tweet
Their power [judges] the more dangerous as they are in office for life and not responsible, as the other functionaries are, to the elective control. The Constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruptions of time and party, its members would become despots. It has more wisely made all the departments co-equal and co-sovereign within themselves. — Thomas Jefferson, U.S. president
Just as Thomas Jefferson feared, these esteemed justices were susceptible to normal human faults. So, as a result, in these two controversial and important cases, the Bush-haters were able to stick it to him. — Adam Turner, columnist, RedState
Some of them are running around our college campuses, protected by credulous district court judges who think that the Constitution requires us to put out the welcome mat for people who want us dead. — Kurt Schlichter, columnist, Townhall
What’s funny, is that her frame: a district judge issuing an order to the President with the words “follow the law” is so obviously not what courts do! — I work with my word tweet
Activist liberal justices have used these injunctions to block virtually all of President Trump’s policies. To put this in perspective, there are 94 federal judicial districts. 5 of those districts throughout this country held 35 of the nationwide injunctions….35 out of the 40 opinions with nationwide injunctions came from five liberal districts in this country. No longer. — Pam Bondi, U.S. attorney general
it just can’t be right that one district judge can stop a nationwide policy in its tracks, and leave it stopped for years — that it takes to go through the normal process. — Elena Kagan, supreme court justice
I was elected on a historic mandate, but in recent months, we’ve seen a handful of radical left judges effectively try to overrule the rightful powers of the president to stop the American people from getting the policies they voted for in record numbers. It was a grave threat to democracy, frankly, and instead of merely ruling on the immediate cases before them, these judges have attempted to dictate the law for the entire nation. — Donald Trump, U.S. president
Problem is, there are no sanctions applied to these feral federal judges. — cbvand comment
This needed to happen. You can not have a small number of lower-court judges effectively making themselves president without mocking the very basis of elections. That doesn’t mean the courts don’t have a role as a check on the executive branch, but a proper, constitutionally limited process should be followed. — Bonchie, columnist, RedState
When judges act like activists, they undermine confidence in our justice system. — Todd Blanch tweet
Their conspiracy—involving the intelligence agencies, political leaders, and the Obama and Biden White Houses—succeeded in removing Trump’s attorney-client privilege, stealing his executive immunity, debanking his companies, attempting to bankrupt him, trumping up felonies where none existed, and trying to imprison him for 100 years in an accounting case run by a judge best suited for a kazoo band. — Victoria Taft, columnist, PJ Media
It’s time the Rogue Marxist Judges be held accountable for their legal activism. Justice Gorsuch Gives Rogue Lower Courts The Smackdown They Deserve. — @FucciPreston tweet
Hewitt went further, calling Judge Engoron “a Looney Tunes character,” and he’s not wrong. Engoron became a walking punchline in the courtroom, so determined to crush Trump that even his colleagues in the judiciary couldn’t stomach the spectacle. — Kevin McCullough, columnist, Townhall
What is ironic is that throughout his second term, Democrats and their close friends and allies in the activist media, have repeatedly criticized Trump for flouting court orders — especially when it comes to his immigration policies. Yet, they have nothing to say when courts that side with the left actually violate the Supreme Court’s rulings. — Jeff Charles, columnist, Townhall
All these interventions should have been unnecessary, but together they underscore a basic tenet of our judicial system: Whatever their own views, judges are duty-bound to respect ‘the hierarchy of the federal court system created by the Constitution and Congress. — Neil Gorsuch, U.S. Supreme Court justice
It’s actually much worse than even that. These smuggled migrant children were orphaned in America by the Biden Administration. The minors have all self-reported that their parents are back home in Guatemala. But a Democrat judge is refusing to let them reunify with their parents. — Stephen Miller presidential advisor
Cleaning up the mess that Biden made was never going to be easy—his dereliction of duty (or purposeful malfeasance) led to millions of illegal aliens flooding our borders. Now the mainstream press and the Democrats cry foul and shriek “cruelty” at any efforts to rectify the situation, when in reality it was they themselves who created this humanitarian disaster. — Bob Hoge, columnist, RedState
I can’t imagine why any court would feel it is up to them, not the President, to decide whether our national debt constitutes an actual emergency. — Clarice Feldman, contributor, American Thinker
Like Americans more generally, judges hold diverse views about the values by which a just society should live. Yet under the Constitution, the choice between these competing views is made by citizens in the democratic process, not by judges settling disputes. — Amy Comey Barrett, judge, U.S. supreme court
That contravenes over 200 years of legal precedent. And it transmogrifies the least-dangerous branch into robed crusaders who get to playact as multitudinous Commanders in Chief. — Andrew Oldham, judge
These garbage cases are so confusing at times that I know it is a result of collaboration between the activist judges and the plaintiffs suing the Trump Administration. First they meet to “judge shop” so they wait until that judge is “up next”. Then they work together to craft a complex suit that results in a ruling that if appealed, will have enough loopholes in it that they always can win. It is total BS and an affront to the intended use of our court system. — Anon-ionf
Who are the judges who kept letting this psycho go free after each arrest??? — Libs of TikTok
One thing the past eight months have really highlighted is the tension between the judiciary and the executive and a tendency by many in the former branch to act as though their traditional role has expanded simply because they don’t care for the current occupant of the latter. I have a sneaking suspicion that in this coming Supreme Court term, Coney Barrett’s timely reminder of the proper role of the judge is going to echo throughout the court’s jurisprudence. — Susie Moore, deputy managing editor, RedState
The fact here is that Brown is no more to blame for this than the prosecutors and judges who taught him that the criminal justice system is a joke, and the politicians who excuse evil under the guise of compassion for homelessness and mental illness. — Nick Sorter, podcast guest
The fact here is that Brown is no more to blame for this than the prosecutors and judges who taught him that the criminal justice system is a joke, and the politicians who excuse evil under the guise of compassion for homelessness and mental illness. — Streiff, columnist, RedState
Activist judges who release offenders without bail seem unconcerned with what those individuals may do once they get back on the street. Iryna Zarutska paid with her life after Decarlos Brown Jr. was arrested and released at least 14 times. — Kevin Finn, contributor, American Thinker
Rogue judges will not stop Trump’s America first agenda: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/05/rogue_judges_will_not_stop_trump_s_america_first_agenda.html (5/2/25).
