The legal system falling into the abyss.

A Judge ordering government to spend money not appropriated by congress is the latest of the extreme partisan actions from rogue out of control district judges.

So just over the past couple of weeks:

• A San Francisco judge declared that two appellate court rulings were not binding to him and ruled against the administration on the restructuring plan to lay off government workers. This was overturned by the USSC.

• A District judge overruled the USSC not once but twice on the issue of deporting illegals to third party countries. He first demanded that the court did not rule specifically on his ruling (in spite of it being an appeal of his ruling) and then after being rebuked a second time by the USSC, he put an administrative stay on the USSC order in order to give the illegals another chance to appeal?

• Now we have a judge who is ordering the federal government to send money to Planned Parenthood in spite of there being no congressional appropriation for any funds to go to Planned Parenthood. Apparently, even the power of the purse now belongs to district court judges.

• Meanwhile, a district judge decided to create a universal injunction by simply declaring a lawsuit to be class action with the wave of a hand. Nothing was done to create the class action or the class of people. The suit was not brought as a class action suit (which requires the plaintiffs to accumulate people and argue the reasoning before a court). It was just the whim of the district court judge and obviously done in order to create a

  way around what the USSC ruled regarding universal injunctions.

It is clear that these district court judges do not respect the USSC at all and will not heed to any rulings trying to limit their roles. This is a change given that the USSC is used to setting precedents and having the lower courts respect and follow these precedents with good intentions. There are no more good intentions to be had

The bigger problem is what to do about it. The USSC can continue to rule against these district court judges (while Jackson dissents), but this is now considered almost a badge of honor amongst these partisan style judges. While most of these rulings are short term delays, at issue are the shear amount of them. There are nearly 700 judges making these decisions and only one USSC to keep them in line. Appellate courts have done their part in keeping them in line, but occasionally you have had a rogue appellate court follow the paths of the district courts, requiring the USSC to jump in. Meanwhile, the more the court rules against these lower courts (and for the Trump administration) the more the left will scream about how horrible the high court is, causing problems on both sides.

Lastly, you are not going to get congress to agree here on anything regarding these judges. They could create laws that put in place specific requirements for a class action suit. They could create a separate court to handle the concepts of class action or universal injunctions. They could literally create laws regarding the district courts to more formally limit authority to within those districts. But I don't see 60 votes in the Senate to accomplish this while Donald Trump is President.

Meanwhile everyone is upset for different reasons. But the main problem here is bit by bit power grab that has been taking place by the judicial branch over the past few decades and how different people react to this. Some think it is good, and some think it is bad, and some will change their minds depending on who is President. Until that is power grab is reversed, the court seems intent on falling even further into the abyss.