The involvement of dictatorial judges has become an existential threat to our republic. Read the Declaration of Independence and you will discover that a very large number of its specific charges against Great Britain zeroed in on exactly these dictatorial judges. The plain fact is that the founding fathers deeply distrusted judges. They saw the entire lawyer class as dangerous, and they warned that you could not hand them unbridled power without watching them undermine and destroy free society. This is no fringe view. Thomas Jefferson, asked about judicial supremacy, called it an absurdity—an oligarchy that is terribly dangerous because judges who believe they are unchallengeable become corrupted, not by cash but by raw arrogance and the habit of imposing their will on the rest of us.
Lord Acton warned in the 19th century that power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. He deliberately dropped the word “tends.” And the courts over the last 53 years have proven him right. Decade after decade, these judges have grown more openly hostile to the American tradition. They now brag about using foreign sources of law because, they sneer, the American Constitution is so old and so antiquated. Any justice who thinks that way has no right to sit on the American bench. One of the biggest roadblocks to a trusted democracy today is the very behavior of the law schools, which openly teach judicial usurpation of power in a way that is utterly unsustainable.
The founding fathers built our Constitution on Montesquieu’s iron principle of the balance of power. We were given three co-equal branches. There can be no supremacy among them by definition—otherwise you would have one superior branch and two inferior ones. But the rot runs even deeper. Read Hamilton in the Federalist Papers: he states flatly that the courts could never take on the legislative and executive branches because they would inevitably lose. Jefferson gave us the clearest historical blueprint for confronting the judiciary.
In the Judicial Reform Act of 1802, the Jeffersonians simply eliminated 18 out of 35 federal judges. They did not impeach them—they abolished their offices and sent them home. Jackson, battling the Bank of the United States (the earlier Bernanke-style monstrosity of centralized power), was told the Supreme Court had declared it constitutional. He shot back: that is their opinion; I have a different one. I am the president—they are a court. They get their opinion in the courtroom; I get mine in the White House. Lincoln spent a large section of his first inaugural address explaining why the Dred Scott decision might be the law of that particular case but could never be the law of the land, and he refused to enforce it while he was president, period.
People still parrot the dangerous nonsense Nancy Pelosi once uttered: when the Court speaks, it is as though God has spoken. To be fair, anyone from her side of the aisle even mentioning God is progress. On national security in the last few years, the courts have become completely detached from reality. The idea that judges should now take charge of defending the United States is a clear and fundamental violation of the Constitution and a direct assault on the executive branch’s rightful power. Congress must immediately pass a law repudiating every single judicial interference in national-security issues and return those duties to the Congress and the president, where they belong.
In 1942, German saboteurs landed in Florida and Long Island. They were rounded up in two weeks. Roosevelt told his attorney general: try them in a military court, execute them, finish it in three weeks. Inform the Supreme Court that if it issues a writ of habeas corpus I will not honor it—so they had better not issue one. He was the commander-in-chief in wartime; they were not. Congress has the explicit power to limit appeals. Congress can slash budgets. Congress can declare that the Ninth Circuit may still meet—but it will have zero clerks. Congress can refuse to pay the electric bill for two years, and since these judges seem happy rendering justice in the dark, they obviously won’t need their law library either. This is straight from Hamilton in the Federalist Papers, where he declares the judiciary the weakest of the three branches. The modern myth of judicial supremacy is the exact opposite of the American tradition.
Congress still holds the power of the purse—and it is time to stop pretending otherwise. Right now, today, this very hour, Congress must act like the Congress the framers created and use that power without mercy or delay. It can abolish rogue courts entirely, eliminate every clerk and staff position, cut off every salary, stop paying rent on their buildings, and shut down the electricity so these judges sit in the dark with no law library and no ability to function. Where fraud is running rampant in Minnesota and California—or anywhere else these judges overreach—Congress must freeze every dollar instantly.
No more funding. No more excuses. No more pretending the judiciary is untouchable. Congress has the constitutional authority to starve this judicial tyranny into submission, and they must exercise it immediately, relentlessly, and without apology. If Congress fails to do this now, America as we know it is finished. The time for talk is over. Defund the dictators on the bench—today.
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