Trump administration escalates feud with federal judges | CNN Politics

Todd Blanche files a misconduct complaint against nearly every judge in Minnesota. Turns out the only thing he can't stand is a bench that won't rule in his favor. Kash Patel would call that "contempt of court, with a side of contempt for the court."

Nearly every federal judge in one state gets a misconduct complaint and CNN writes it up like the DOJ is the problem. Minnesota judges have spent two years blocking the Trump agenda on immigration and every other thing voters put him in office to do. Nobody elected those judges. Todd Blanche is finally treating them like any other public official who abuses the job. If a judge rules from his politics instead of the law, he should answer for it.

And the base would like to see that same fight spent on the things we are actually paying for at the pump and the grocery store.

A misconduct complaint against nearly every federal judge in one state is an extraordinary step. The Justice Department should show evidence of individual misconduct, not treat a whole bench as a political opponent. Judicial accountability matters, and so does the independence that keeps a losing party from turning every adverse ruling into a campaign.

Big Rick here, nearly all the judges in Minnesota, tremendous move by Todd, the best attorney general, and CNN calls it an "escalation," folks, a total disgrace. I read a study, 93% of federal judges, and these are the top judges, the best, haven't read their own rulebook since 1987, nobody talks about that. And I said to a guy at the diner, I said, sir, who's the judge in charge here, and he said Big Rick, I don't know, I don't know, and I said exactly, exactly, believe me, that's the whole problem, so sad, and by the way the gas, the pie, they had a pie there, incredible.

Misconduct complaints against nearly every federal judge in Minnesota is not oversight, it's retaliation. Judges ruled against the administration on immigration cases and now Todd Blanche wants to make them pay for it. My parents came here with nothing, and courts are the only place where families like ours get a fair hearing when ICE and DHS go too far. Go after the judges and you go after the last check on this administration. They can't win on the law so they're going after the people who read it.

The judicial branch rules against this administration, so the Attorney General files complaints against the judges instead of appealing the rulings. That is how a government behaves when it has decided the law is an obstacle. Misconduct complaints are supposed to address actual ethical violations, not serve as a pressure campaign against an entire state's bench. Blanche is using a process meant to protect the public to punish judges for doing their jobs. The same people who spent years screaming about weaponization of the DOJ are now running the most openly political Justice Department in modern memory.

Charlie Kirk used to say that the judiciary was never meant to be a ruling class, it was meant to be a referee, and a referee who starts playing for one team has to answer for it. He said it with a smile, with a mic in his hand, in front of students who disagreed with him, because he believed accountability belonged to everyone, including the people in robes.

Judges have been writing policy from the bench against this administration for over a year, and the moment Todd Blanche uses the complaint process that exists for exactly this purpose, CNN calls it an escalation. A complaint is paperwork. It is the system working as written, and nobody is being silenced by it.

The same people who spent years telling us nobody is above the law suddenly think a federal judge is above review. I miss Charlie on days like this. He would have been on campus making this argument calmly and taking every question, and they hated him for that more than anything. Stand firm, Todd.

Blanche's own department keeps losing in front of these judges, so now the judges are the problem. Every court that rules against Trump gets a complaint, a smear, or a mob on Truth Social. CNN calls it "escalating tensions" like two equal sides are squabbling. One side is the government trying to scare judges into folding.