Conservative commentator Megyn Kelly recently addressed the Democratic efforts to thwart President Donald Trump’s efforts with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in the court system. Just weeks into Trump’s second term, various initiatives have been tied up in the courts as dozens of lawsuits have been filed.
However, Kelly argued on her SiriusXM podcast, “The Megyn Kelly Show” that the strategy to subvert President Trump’s executive orders will ultimately fail. She noted that most of the cases are predicated on imposing temporary restraining orders preventing Trump from implementing the policies until full hearings can be held about the matter.
“The Democrats think they’ve found the speed bump they’ve been looking for,” Kelly said. “Of course, they’re filing lawsuit after lawsuit, I think, 40 lawsuits so far, and that has allowed them because they have some judges who are finding their way…They’re winning temporary restraining orders to say, ‘You can’t enforce that law until we have a full hearing on it,’” she added. “And they’re like, ‘Oh, it’s a huge win, we’re shutting down Trump’s ability to change the government.’”
However, Kelly pointed out that in only one instance, Trump was ordered to reverse his order completely. “There’s literally only one example of [Trump] being ordered to resume payments to federal agencies where then the plaintiff said he didn’t resume doing that fast enough,” she said.
They haven’t said we’re not going to do it. If the judge says do it, and the Trump team says we refuse, then we’re closer to actually having a crisis between the branches. This judge is going to get overruled. The feds are allowed, the executive branch is allowed to control a lot of how the money gets spent, whether it gets spent. They can’t shut down entire agencies that are authorized by Congress, but they do have a lot of control over money and whether to spend it.
Kelly also argued that the Democratic rhetoric that Trump is ushering in a “constitutional crisis” is overblown and untrue. “I realize that these various plaintiffs don’t like that. The Democrats don’t like that, but it’s going to play out the courts, and I think in as I said last night, nine out of 10 of 10 of these cases is going to go Trump’s way,” she said.
The commentator added, “So we are not at a constitutional crisis yet is not flipped the bird to any judge telling him he must do something yet.” However, she suggested that former President Joe Biden has a record of ignoring legal precedent. “Who has done that? Joe Biden. That actually was Joe Biden, and I don’t remember the same people freaking out,” she added.
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However, Kelly acknowledged the Democratic strategy to combat the executive orders through lawsuits has had some degree of success. “Now, the Dems have had some success recently at the federal district court. Judges have temporarily blocked Trump’s spending freezes, that’s what I just referred to, and then ordered him to resume the spending. His executive order saying birthright citizenship is no longer going to be allowed for the children of illegals,” she said.
Building on that, she stated that the Trump administration anticipated these roadblocks, suggesting they are planning to appeal the cases all the way up to the conservative majority Supreme Court. “Trump 100% knew that that would be blocked. There’s zero doubt he understood that was going to be blocked. He is trying to tee up an appeal that will go up just SCOTUS. He’s not dumb. The lawyers advising him are not dumb. They know that that’s going to go up,” she said.
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