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There have been more than 70 lawsuits launched, already, against President Donald Trump and his agenda to root out corruption, inefficiency, fraud and the like from government spending – essentially a continuation of the lawfare Democrats and other leftists have organized against him since his first presidency.
And some of the judges' rulings so far have been intended to block the president from exercising the authorities of the executive branch with Congress now reacting with plans to impeach some of those decision-makers.
"You're not just hurting the president. You're hurting the American people because they're the ones who elected him, and they're the ones who want him to do this – to exercise these specific authorities. And these judges are really denying the American people their rights," explained U.S. Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga.
He is working with Rep. Eli Crane, R-Ariz., on articles of impeachment against U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer specifically, who has blocked Trump's Department of Government Efficiency from even accessing some information about how taxpayer moneys are turned over to various leftist organizations.
A report at Fox News explained Clyde also has considered the same action against Judge John McConnell, who, at the time, ordered the Trump administration to follow his own ideology, expressed in a restraining order temporarily blocking efforts to pause the handout of federal money through grants and loans.
McConnell's claims to impartiality, as required of federal judges, took a hit, Fox reported, when a video from 2021 of him appeared saying courts must "stand and enforce the rule of law, that is, against arbitrary and capricious actions by what could be a tyrant or could be whatnot."
"You have to take a moment and realize that this, you know, middle-class, white, male, privileged person needs to understand the human being that comes before us that may be a woman, may be black, may be transgender, may be poor, may be rich, may be – whatever," McConnell said in the video, the report said.
Clyde said judges, of course, have their own opinions, and are entitled to them, but they should not be "overt and political in mentioning them" if they "don't want to be seen as potentially having a conflict of interest."
Clyde said he expects eventually Trump will prevail on the merits.
"He has the authority under Article II of the Constitution," Clyde said. "But yet for the entire time of the restraining order, the judge will have prevented this duly elected authority from being exercised by the president. And also, they will have prevented the American people from dealing with waste, fraud and abuse in their government."
Clyde warned that judges "can't just stop the president from doing what the Constitution gives him the authority to do, and the people have given him the authority to do."