{"id":2426229,"date":"2025-04-22T14:12:02","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T18:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judicial-supremacy-is-destroying-americas-constitutional-order\/"},"modified":"2025-04-22T14:15:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T18:15:53","slug":"judicial-supremacy-is-destroying-americas-constitutional-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judicial-supremacy-is-destroying-americas-constitutional-order\/","title":{"rendered":"Judicial Supremacy Is Destroying America&#8217;s Constitutional Order"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjudicial-supremacy-is-destroying-americas-constitutional-order%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2426229&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses a recent Supreme Court decision where seven justices temporarily halted the deportation of risky Venezuelan gang members under the Alien Enemies Act, arguing that this action overstepped President Trump&#8217;s constitutional powers regarding immigration enforcement. This ruling was made without providing a rationale, prompting dissent from Associate Justice Samuel alito and Clarence Thomas, who criticized the majority for acting without clear jurisdiction and disrupting ongoing legal processes.<\/p>\n<p>The piece highlights the perceived inconsistency in the court&#8217;s actions compared to previous immigration policies during the Biden administration, which allowed a significant influx of undocumented immigrants. It argues that the Constitution grants enforcement authority to the president, not the judiciary, and emphasizes that the Founding Fathers did not view the courts as supreme over other government branches. The article criticizes what it terms &#8220;judicial supremacism,&#8221; asserting that the judiciary has overstepped its bounds by not only interpreting but also creating laws and restricting the executive&#8217;s authority to enforce statutes.<\/p>\n<p>The author calls for challenges to the Supreme Court&#8217;s actions to prevent continued overreach by unelected judges, suggesting that unless such challenges occur, Americans will be governed by judicial decisions that extend beyond constitutional limits.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>If the average American were asked to point to the section of the U.S. Constitution granting the Supreme Court authority to execute immigration laws, chances are he would have a tough time finding it. Why? Because such a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/executive-disorder-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Executive dis... ... Washington Examiner\">power doesn&#038;rsquo<\/a>;t exist.<\/p>\n<p>That <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">pertinent fact didn&#038;rsquo<\/a>;t seem to matter to seven justices on America&rsquo;s highest court, however.<\/p>\n<p>This past weekend, these justices took it upon themselves to usurp President Trump&rsquo;s Article II powers over immigration enforcement by <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/04\/22\/the-courts-are-the-scofflaws-behind-our-current-constitutional-crisis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">temporarily halting<\/a> the planned deportations of dangerous Venezuelan gang members under the Alien Enemies Act. Released in the early hours of Saturday morning, the court&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/orders\/courtorders\/041925zr_c18e.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">one-page order<\/a> arbitrarily directed the administration &ldquo;not to remove any member of the putative class of detainees from the United States until further order of this Court.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The order provided no rationale for the decision, prompting Associate Justice Samuel Alito to pen a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/24pdf\/24a1007_22p3.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">blistering dissent<\/a>, in which Associate Justice Clarence Thomas joined. In addition to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/04\/21\/alito-issues-scathing-rebuke-of-supreme-courts-middle-of-the-night-deportation-interference\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">chastising<\/a> the majority for &ldquo;hastily and prematurely&rdquo; granting emergency relief in a case still working its way through the lower courts, Alito laid out a bulleted list of everything wrong with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/scotus-overturns-chevron-doctrine-upends-administrative-state\/\" title=\"... Overturns Chevron Doctrine, Upends Administrative State\">high court&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s &ldquo;unprecedented and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alito-rebukes-supreme-courts-midnight-deportation-interference\/\" title=\"Alito Rebukes ... Court\u2019s Midnight ... Interference\">legally questionable&#038;rdquo<\/a>; actions. He notably wrote, &ldquo;It is not clear that the Court had jurisdiction&rdquo; over the matter, and, &ldquo;Both the Executive <em>and the Judiciary<\/em> have an obligation to follow the law&rdquo; (emphasis added).<\/p>\n<p><strong>[READ:[READ:<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/04\/22\/the-courts-are-the-scofflaws-behind-our-current-constitutional-crisis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Courts Are The Scofflaws Behind Our Current Constitutional Crisis<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While the merits of this case and other leftist-backed challenges to Trump&rsquo;s immigration policies have yet to be considered by SCOTUS, the absurdity of the majority&rsquo;s midnight order in the broader context of illegal immigration into the United States is notable.<\/p>\n<p>For four years under Joe Biden, millions of foreign nationals were allowed to pour into America&rsquo;s interior with little to no oversight or pushback. While hordes of illegals came across the U.S.-Mexico border, the Biden administration facilitated the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/09\/10\/flood-of-more-than-20000-haitian-migrants-wreaks-havoc-in-ohio-town\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">placement<\/a> of foreign nationals throughout the country in places like Springfield, Ohio, upending countless American lives in the process.<\/p>\n<p>Some American families suffered great losses as a result of Biden&rsquo;s open border policies. Illegal aliens who never should have been allowed to set foot in the U.S. to begin with <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/03\/05\/top-13-moments-from-trumps-2025-address-to-congress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">took<\/a> the lives of young girls like Laken Riley and Jocelyn Nungaray.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, when Trump attempts to reverse this anarchy by lawfully utilizing his Article II powers and existing statutes to remove foreign nationals infringing upon America&rsquo;s sovereignty, the courts interfere and tell him he can&rsquo;t. That is patently absurd and illogical. <\/p>\n<p>For one, the Constitution gives the authority to execute the nation&rsquo;s laws to the president &mdash; not to the Supreme Court or any other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/government-unions-have-been-stealing-money-for-years-now-scotus-has-the-chance-to-intervene\/\" title=\"Government Unions Have Been Stealing Money For Years \u2014 Now, ... Has The Chance To Intervene\">lower court judge<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, the notion that the judiciary is &ldquo;supreme&rdquo; to the other branches directly contradicts the views of the Founding Fathers. As The Federalist&rsquo;s John Daniel Davidson recently <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/03\/18\/trump-is-right-to-push-back-against-judicial-supremacy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">explained<\/a>, the founders &ldquo;didn&rsquo;t think the judiciary was the sole arbiter of what is and is not constitutional.&rdquo; &ldquo;While the courts, headed by the Supreme Court, indeed have an independent power to interpret and apply the Constitution,&rdquo; Davidson wrote, &ldquo;that doesn&rsquo;t mean they are supreme over the other two branches, or the states for that matter.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Alexander Hamilton even suggested in <a href=\"https:\/\/founders.archives.gov\/documents\/Hamilton\/01-04-02-0241\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Federalist No. 78<\/a> that the judiciary is to be considered the weakest of the three branches, as it &ldquo;has no influence over either the sword or the purse, no direction either of the strength or of the wealth of the society, and can take no active resolution whatever.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The judiciary &ldquo;may truly be said to have neither&nbsp;force&nbsp;nor&nbsp;will, but merely judgment; and must ultimately depend upon the aid of the executive arm even for the efficacy of its judgments,&rdquo; Hamilton wrote. <\/p>\n<p>The system of government Hamilton described is not the one Americans find themselves living under today.<\/p>\n<p>What the United States has witnessed throughout the past century &mdash; and was further shown by SCOTUS early Saturday morning &mdash; is an out-of-control judiciary that has superseded the authority provided to it by the Constitution. Not content with simply interpreting laws, the courts have taken it upon themselves to create law out of thin air (see <em><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/roe-v-wade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Roe v. Wade<\/a><\/em>) and dictate to the executive what statutes and constitutional provisions it is and isn&rsquo;t allowed to enforce. <\/p>\n<p>That is judicial supremacism &mdash; something the founders flatly rejected.<\/p>\n<p>Whether or not SCOTUS does the right thing in the end and &ldquo;allows&rdquo; Trump to deport Venezuelan gang members under the Alien Enemies Act is totally up in the air. The fact remains that the judiciary &mdash; including the Supreme Court &mdash; has far exceeded the confines of the limits placed upon it by the Constitution. <\/p>\n<p>Unless and until <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/03\/06\/if-the-supreme-court-is-going-to-ignore-the-constitution-trump-should-ignore-the-supreme-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Trump<\/a> and\/or <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/04\/21\/republicans-in-congress-aim-to-stop-judicial-coup-detat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Congress<\/a> challenge such tyranny, Americans will continue to be ruled by unelected politicians in black robes.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Shawn Fleetwood is a staff writer for The Federalist and a graduate of the University of Mary Washington. He previously served as a state content writer for Convention of States Action and his work has been featured in numerous outlets, including RealClearPolitics, RealClearHealth, and Conservative Review. Follow him on Twitter @ShawnFleetwood<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most Americans would struggle to find any constitutional basis for the Supreme Court&#8217;s authority over immigration laws, as it doesn&#8217;t exist. However, this fact didn&#8217;t deter seven justices from acting on it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":539,"featured_media":2426230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SCOTUS-2.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5374,53894,53893,39502],"class_list":["post-2426229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-america","tag-constitutional-order","tag-judicial-supremacy","tag-legal-system"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SCOTUS-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/539"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2426229"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2426233,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426229\/revisions\/2426233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2426230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2426229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2426229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2426229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}