I have been following politics since I was in college, and I have been covering politics for about a decade now, and I cannot recall any president having a run like President Donald Trump is on right now.
Aside from his recent legislative win, Trump has also been on a roll with Supreme Court decisions.
His administration has swarmed the Court with emergency requests, and much to the delight of his supporters and the administration, he has notched win after win.
Trump is not only winning, but the Court is calling out “extreme” opinions by the left when it is dissenting against the majority, something you rarely see to the level that we are seeing right now.
Case in point... in Trump v. CASA, the birthright citizenship controversy, the Court addressed the issue of nationwide injunctions by lower courts, but Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson acted as though the world was about to end, much in the same way that Justice Sonia Sotomayor had a meltdown over the presidential immunity ruling, though that was nothing more than a regurgitation of past rulings on the matter.
Justice Amy Coney Barrett blistered Jackson’s dissent, stating, "She might be arguing that universal injunctions are appropriate—even required—whenever the defendant is part of the Executive Branch. If so, her position goes far beyond the mainstream defense of universal injunctions."
Then came the death blow, adding, "We observe only this: Justice Jackson decries an imperial Executive while embracing an imperial Judiciary.”
Something else we have seen recently is when justices point out what they view as flaws in rules and procedures that are being abused by the lower-level courts.
Again, in Trump v. CASA, Alito warned against the courts abusing their powers, stating, "Federal courts should thus be vigilant against such potential abuses of these tools.”
Alito continued, "District courts should not view today’s decision as an invitation to certify nationwide classes without scrupulous adherence to the rigors of Rule 23."
He added, "Otherwise, the universal injunction will return from the grave under the guise of ‘nationwide class relief,’ and today’s decision will be of little more than minor academic interest."
Trump v. CASA was just one win for Trump, but the Court has handed him a slew of victories, with the president also recently prevailing in a case to deport criminal illegal immigrants to third-party countries when their native countries no longer want them back.
The president has been able to use the emergency application as a way to fight back against what the administration believes is an activist court. Now, that is not always true, but we have seen instances in which judges accepted cases outside of their jurisdiction as well as judges who appeared to have an axe to grind against not just Trump, but conservatives in general, many of which the Court has accepted and overturned.
These wins are temporary wins until the lower courts re-examine the cases or the Court issues its final ruling, but they are wins, nonetheless, and it has enabled Trump to start to get the wheels moving on the agenda for which the American people elected him.
While these emergency rulings do not usually foretell how the Court will rule in the case once it is on the docket, the nature of these cases and the fact that the Court is issuing these stays tell me that Trump has an excellent chance of winning. He will not win them all, but he is going to succeed in far more of these cases than anyone thought possible, including me. And I can tell you flat out, I will be very happy to have been wrong, especially regarding immigration and the birthright citizenship case. Just keep winning, Mr. President.