Maeve Bidonde, Staff Writer
The first month of President Donald Trump’s second term has brought a lot of questionable executive orders. Elon Musk is using DOGE to gain access to private information about U.S. Citizens, the Gulf of Mexico being just renamed to Gulf of America, and Trump asserting that he’d like to buy Greenland and rename it to Red, White, and Blue Land. Federal judges have since stepped in and blocked many of these executive orders.
According to CBS News, several federal judges have blocked Trump’s executive orders including overturning birthright citizenship in the U.S. This is due to Trump’s executive order violating the 14th amendment which guarantees birthright citizenship. U.S. District Judge Leo Sorokin, who is part of the Federal District Court in Massachusetts, joined one other judge who temporarily blocked the order. The block is meant to sustain the 1999 Supreme Court decision where a Chinese man born to immigrant parents was granted citizenship based on the Constitution.
Matthew Platkin, Attorney General of New Jersey, gave a statement to CBS News about the blocks on the executive order. “President Trump may believe that he is above the law, but today’s preliminary injunction sends a clear message: He is not a king, and he cannot rewrite the Constitution with the stroke of a pen,” Platkin said in his statement. The executive orders come as part of Trump’s immigration crack down he’d promised whilst campaigning.
Musk has come out stating he’d like the federal judges who blocked Trump’s agenda impeached. According to US News & World Report, a federal judge had passed an order blocking political appointees from accessing records in the Department of Treasury containing Americans’ sensitive personal data.
Vice-President JD Vance posted on social media that the judges need to be impeached and that they’re not allowed to control the power of an executive. According to US News & World Report, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt has also said that judges are “acting as judicial activists rather than honest arbiters of the law.”
Amongst the Republicans denouncing the federal judges some Senate Republicans are denouncing the threats of impeachment. “We’ve got a system of checks and balances, and that’s what I see working. I learned in eighth grade civics about checks and balances, and I expect the process to work its way out,” said Republican Senator Chuck Grassley to US News & World Report.
Right now the Checks and Balances system is overseeing and evaluating these actions to prevent any executives from abusing their power through illegal or uncalled orders being enforced.
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