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Trump plays a dangerous game on judges

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24.02.2026

Beginning in the Obama era, liberals in politics and the news media began an insidious campaign of threatening the Supreme Court if it didn’t rule in their favor.

Liberals declared that the Supreme Court would declare itself illegitimate if it struck down Obamacare’s individual mandate. By that, liberals meant that they would declare the Supreme Court illegitimate if it didn’t rule the way they liked.

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Conservatives said this was bad. We were right. Our republic only functions if the people, especially the leaders, have faith that the courts are legitimate, even when we disagree with them.

Unfortunately, the lesson the Democrats and the Left took from Obama’s win in the individual mandate case was something else: threatening the court’s legitimacy is good, and it works.

They did the same about Roe v. Wade. Most famously, Senate Democratic........

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