AG Bill Barr Ready to Shake Up Obama Immigration Judges!

Attorney General William Barr has identified, in his own words, what the real problem is with the immigration policy in America: Judges.

Obama-era holdovers in the judiciary system are the ones blocking any and all progress on the process of immigration reform, according to Barr. And that must change.

In other words, Barr believes that those Obama-era judges are the main problem, the obstacle planted between President Trump and his ability to conclusively address the crisis on our Southern border. Federal jusdges, to be more precise.

And Barr plans to shake things up, highlighting the issue and pushing for the appointment of new, Trump-era judges.

The Real Problem With Immigration Policy? Judges https://t.co/prDAD6QqS1

— J. W. (@wolfjon4) April 10, 2019

According to the Daily Caller:

If you were to guess the most critical problem faced by President Trump in dealing with the flood of illegal immigration at our southern border, what would it be? Foreign government-sponsored migration caravans? Funding for the border wall? A shortage of border patrol agents? Indeed, these all are aspects of the serious problems Trump is encountering in addressing the ongoing crisis at our southern border; but they fail to get to the heart of the problem the president faces in taking steps to solve the crisis.

In a word, judges are the main obstacle standing between the president and his ability to seriously address the border crisis. Federal judges.

Interestingly, our founding fathers warned of this very problem more than two centuries ago. “At the establishment of our constitutions, the judiciary bodies were supposed to be the most helpless and harmless members of the government,” Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1823. “Experience however soon shewed in what way they were to become the most dangerous.”

Jefferson’s comments reflect what many of our founders feared; that while the the powers of the republic were vested in three co-ordinate (not “co-equal”) branches, each acting as a check on the others, the furtive creep of judicial power over the years would lead to an imbalance in power, inviting a tyranny of the judiciary. This is exactly where we find ourselves today, 230 years after the Constitution was ratified.

Article III of the Constitution outlines specific and limited responsibilities for the federal judiciary; but it was not until the 1803 Supreme Court case Marbury v. Madison, that the concept of judicial review of the nation’s laws took hold. Judicial review is an entirely appropriate and essential function of the Courts, but it was not intended — and in fact was feared — that such powers might eventually grow so that every decision or move by the president or Congress be reviewed and possibly vetoed by unelected judges.

NATIONAL POLL: Do You Still Have Trump's Back 100%?

This is exactly what is happening in the quagmire that has become illegal immigration flooding our southern border, wherein every policy decision by Trump to stem or slow the tide is subject to the whims of some liberal judge on a federal bench, armed and ready with national injunctions to thwart his every move. While the administration is able to appeal these decisions, such remedy consumes many weeks if not months; during which time appropriated funds lie fallow and federal workers are stymied in their ability to implement policy directives from the White House. Just this week, a judge from the 9th Circuit in California issued a preliminary injunction blocking the administration’s “Remain in Mexico” policy for asylum seekers.

Truly, we have reached the point at which unelected judges are making public policy; often in direct and pointed opposition to the platform and policies on which the president was elected.

We have already seen the 9th Circuit tip back to leaning conservative from leaning liberal under Trump, and more is coming.

The bottom line is this: the political culture MUST change, and the powers that be MUST work together, along with President Trump, to solve this crisis. Otherwise, all this immigration talk will come to nothing.

Removal of judges for poor performance and not keeping with the law, or the constitution, is something the house, followed by the senate, needs to undertake universally throughout our judicial branch.

This too is something the founders envisioned as a check or balance of this judicial review power. Judges who make decisions not ultimately supported by the law of the land need to be removed from the bench.