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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 between 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 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 in 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 seats have become a highly politicized issue because of the makeup

of the court and how it has become substantially more conservative, especially compared to

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