Liberal Lawfare 2.0: Left-wing Activist Judges’ Plan to Stop Trump | Victor Davis Hanson

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🗓️ 24 March 2025

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Despite winning the electoral college, and popular vote, President Donald Trump continues to face numerous legal roadblocks as he tries to fulfill his campaign promises, such as reigning in mass illegal immigration and protecting Jewish students on college campuses. Well-funded liberal organizations and left-wing activist judges have launched a full-court-press to seemingly block everything Trump is doing, which is eerily similar to the 2022-24 lawfare period, argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words:” “This is very analogous—cherry-picking left-wing judges is very analogous to what we watched all during the 2022-24 lawfare period. You remember Judge [Arthur] Engoron, Judge [Juan] Merchan, and Judge [Lewis] Kaplan—he was the judge in the E. Jean Carroll [case]. And we had the Alvin Bragg judge and the Letitia James. They were all—like these judges, they had two things in common: They were left-wing activist judges, appointed by either Biden, Obama, or Bill Clinton. And they had minor to major conflicts of interest where people in their family were big, either had worked for a prior Democratic administration or themselves were activists. “And what did they do? They tried to put Donald Trump in jail. “That same lawfare has now been transmogrified and put into a more concerted effort to stop everything that Donald Trump is trying to do. And what he's trying to do, remember, is not radical. It's just simply to enforce immigration law. It's just simply to bring back the country to the middle.” Don’t miss out on Victor’s latest videos by subscribing to The Daily Signal today. You’ll be notified every time a new piece of content drops: https://www.youtube.com/dailysignal?sub_confirmation=1 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.3	Ostensibly, Donald Trump and J.D. Vance won an overwhelming victory, and you can define that in a
0:35.8	variety of ways, not just a plurality, but I think it would be called a referendum on America. And you can define that in a variety of ways, not just a plurality,
0:38.0	but I think it would be called a referendum on America. And yet they are now stymie. In a pre-planned
0:43.6	way, liberal organization lavishly funded by what they themselves might want to call oligarchs,
0:49.6	have funded massive lawsuits against the Trump administration, stopping executive orders.
0:56.0	Cherry-picking left-wing activist judges appointed by either Biden, Obama, or Bill Clinton.
1:02.0	And what did they do? They tried to put Donald Trump in jail.
1:05.0	That same lawfare has now been transmogrified and put into a more concerted effort to stop everything that Donald
1:13.8	Trump is trying to do. And what he's trying to do, remember, is not radical.
1:32.7	Hello, this is Victor Davis Hansen for the Daily Signal.
1:39.9	Ostensibly, Donald Trump and J.D. Vance won an overwhelming victory. And you can define that in a variety of ways, not just a plurality, but I think it would be called a referendum on America.
1:47.4	After all, they were the first ticket on the Republican side to have won the popular vote in 20 years.
1:54.2	They won an overwhelming majority in the electoral college.
1:58.3	They retained control of the House of Representatives. They won the Senate.
2:03.7	There's a six to three supposedly conservative majority on the Supreme Court. They won all of the
2:10.6	swing states. So they came into office with this momentum from the American people that was
2:16.5	expressed through a national election.
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