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In December of 1960, the band

the Crickets released a new iconic song where they declared, I fought the law and the law won.

When the song was covered by the clash in 1979, it became a punk rock classic.

Turned to 2025 and President Donald Trump is having his own fight with the legal world.

It's not over a girl or a gun

like the cricket song, but it's over executive orders and liberal judges' efforts to stop his

agenda. From the start of his administration to April 1st, President Trump has signed 109

executive orders, and there have been 53 rulings by district court judges to halt his actions.

Now, I think it's worth explain the difference

from different kinds of judges for a second. District court judges are lower on the level of

federal judiciary. There are 670 judges who receive a lifetime appointment by a president,

and like the title and their job describes, they're just allowed to hear federal complaints

within a district. Once a complaint

is heard at the district level, it makes way up to the appellate court in each respective

region of the country, and there were 13 appellate courts in the entire country. Anyone who's

paid attention to politics, especially over the last decade, realized that the Supreme Court

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