Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele recently went viral for his assessment of what activist judges in the U.S. are doing to President Donald Trump’s agenda. Since he dealt with the same issues in his country, Bukele was quick to recognize “the U.S. is facing a judicial coup.” From foreign aid to Department of Defense policy and everything in between, the Trump administration’s policies are being stymied by the courts every step of the way, and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is boasting about why that’s happening.
In an interview last week with PBS News Hour, host Geoff Bennett asked the New York Democrat if he agreed with “those who believe that we are in real time living through an assault on the constitutional order.”
"Yes, our democracy is at risk because Donald Trump shows that he wishes to violate the laws in many, many different ways," Schumer replied.
"The good news here is, we did put 235 judges, progressive judges, judges not under the control of Trump, last year on the bench, and they are ruling against Trump time after time after time," he continued. "And we hope that the appellate courts, when it gets up there, and the Supreme Court will uphold those rulings. They restored the money to NIH. They required that 8,000 employees, federal employees, have to come back.
"We're in over 100 lawsuits against them, and we are having a good deal of success," Schumer added. "It's only at the lower court level right now."
Chuck Schumer admits the quiet part out loud— Democrat-appointed judges are really activists who are there to stop Trump:
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"We did put 235 judges, progressive judges, judges not under the control of Trump, last year on the bench, and they are ruling against Trump time after time… pic.twitter.com/WDoaBnUW1H
