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Federal judges are inundated with lawsuits over the White House attempts to carry out its agenda. And many judges, even some Trump appointees, have gone against the government. The lawsuits challenge various issues, ranging from tariffs to the president's national security powers,

to immigration, to plans for a White House ballroom. The sheer number of these legal battles is not the only thing. That's unusual. The Trump administration has repeatedly blamed judges

for rulings that he says are not based on law, but on politics.

Here's White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt speaking last year in response to a ruling

blocking the government from flying alleged Venezuelan gang members to a notorious prison in El Salvador.

60% of the injunctions by partisan activists in the judicial branch have come against President

Donald Trump, and 92% of those have been from Democrat appointed judges.

This is a clear concerted effort by leftists who don't like this president and are trying

to impose or slow down his agenda.

But it's not only judges appointed under Democratic administrations who are not aligning with the president.

When Trump appointee, Judge Karen Emmergut, blocked the president from deploying the National Guard to Portland, Oregon last year,

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller called it a legal insurrection.

We have seen, over the last nine months, a ongoing legal insurrection in which district

court judges, as a class in many cases, have issued, which why they've been overturned so much,

have issued rulings that are flagrantly unlawful and unconstitutional. And it is an insurrection

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