John Roberts Is The Face Of Leftists’ Judicial Coup
By: Shawn Fleetwood
June 11, 2025There has never been a figure in modern U.S. history who has done more to destroy the judiciary’s credibility than John Roberts.
Not a week seems to go by without a rogue lower court judge issuing yet another overreaching edict designed to subvert the will of the American people.
On Monday, an Obama-appointed district court judge attempted to block parts of President Trump’s executive orders ending subsidization of programs promoting DEI and radical gender ideology. On June 5, a different Obama-appointed judge handed down an injunction aiming to halt the Trump administration’s prohibition on international students attending Harvard. A week before that, yet another Obama-appointed judge sought to prevent the president from ending a Biden-era “parole” program for foreign nationals living in the United States.
While these “judges” certainly deserve criticism for rubber-stamping leftists’ lawfare, there’s one individual who deserves primary blame for this concentrated effort to cripple Trump’s presidency via a judicial coup: Chief Justice John Roberts.
Over the past five months, rogue lower courts have issued nearly 200 overreaching injunctions and temporary restraining orders attempting to prevent Trump from fulfilling his Article II obligation to execute the nation’s laws. And yet, despite this egregious usurpation of constitutional authority, the Supreme Court’s leading justice has done nothing substantive to stop it.
While Roberts and several of his colleagues have handed down temporary relief to the administration in a handful of cases, the high court has declined to permanently shut down lower court judges’ abuse of universal injunctions — despite having ample opportunities to do so.
The first notable incident occurred in early March, when Roberts and Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined the high court’s Democrat appointees on a case centered on foreign grants. In a 5-4 decision, the majority declined to vacate a lower court judge’s ruling ordering the Trump administration to disburse roughly $2 billion in foreign grants to nongovernmental groups.
https://thefederalist.com/2025/06/11/john-roberts-is-the-face-of-leftists-judicial-coup/
