The rogue district court judges

 Daily Signal:

District court judges aren’t just striking down President Donald Trump’s orders, arguably taking presidential power on themselves. In at least one case, a district judge appears to have openly defied the Supreme Court itself.

The Supreme Court Monday issued a stay on an April 18 injunction in the case D.V.D. v. Department of Homeland Security. That injunction slapped restrictions on DHS’ attempts to deport illegal aliens to countries other than their original home countries.

Yet Judge Brian E. Murphy, an appointee of President Joe Biden confirmed by the Senate less than a month before Trump took office, issued an order mere hours after the Supreme Court stay, acting as though the nation’s highest court had not thrown out his initial injunction.

The case involves seven men whom the Trump administration aims to deport to South Sudan. Murphy threatened to hold DHS officials in criminal contempt for ostensibly violating his April 18 temporary injunction, halting the deportation flight during a stopover at a U.S. military base in Djibouti, a country in the Horn of Africa.

The illegal aliens’ lawyers asked Murphy for another order Monday, but he declined to issue a new order, stating that his May 21 order remained in effect. The problem? That May 21 order involved enforcing the April 18 injunction the Supreme Court had just blocked.

DHS clapped back with a blistering filing to the Supreme Court, asking the court to put Murphy in his place.

“The district court’s ruling of last night is a lawless act of defiance that, once again, disrupts sensitive diplomatic relations and slams the brakes on the executive’s lawful efforts to effectuate third-country removals,” DHS wrote in a filing Tuesday.

“This court should immediately make clear that the district court’s enforcement order has no effect, and put a swift end to the ongoing irreparable harm to the executive branch and its agents, who remain under baseless threat of contempt,” the filing continued.

DHS noted that the May 21 order “explicitly purported to do nothing more than clarify and enforce the terms of the original injunction,” so it cannot stand if the original April 18 injunction falls.

DHS condemned Murphy’s “unprecedented defiance” of the Supreme Court’s authority, but the judge’s move makes a bizarre kind of sense in the context of the judicial insurrection.
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The Supreme Court may have to hold the district judges in contempt of court.  These rogue judges need to be held to account for their attempts to thwart democracy.  We voted for Trump and not rogue judges.