How Trump Alienated the Judiciary
A ruling against his executive order on sanctuary cities is the latest rebuke dealt to the president by a federal judge.
President Trump’s first 100 days deserve at least one superlative: The Trump administration has managed to alienate the courts to a degree that some administrations take years to achieve.
The latest Trump defeat came Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. That case, has now produced a nationwide injunction against another Trump executive order: “,” issued on January 25. On Tuesday, federal district judge William Orrick of the Northern District of California, blocked section 9(a) of the order. That’s the enforcement mechanism of the order’s ill-defined attack on “sanctuary” cities and counties that refuse to take orders from the Department of
