May 10, 2025
It’s Time to Judge the Judges!
By Richard Blakley
Obama deported 400,000 illegal immigrants per year when he was in office. No one said a word. But now, to rid the U.S. of the enormous Biden-era 21 million illegal aliens at a mere 400,000 per year, it will take 52.5 years. That means to complete deportation, we will need 13 more consecutive Trump presidential terms.
Creatively, President Trump is considering reopening Alcatraz, while the courts are struggling to remember the Supreme Court and the Constitution have already ruled and answered illegal immigration questions.
The first three articles of the Constitution distributed distinct governmental powers amongst three branches, with Article 4 Section 4 stating this:
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence.
This clearly puts the power of protecting the United States against “invasion” firmly in the hands of the Legislative and Executive Branches of the government and NOT the Judicial branch. In fact, the 1849 Supreme Court ruling of Luther v. Borden, “Chief Justice Roger Taney held that the political branches of government, and not the federal courts, should decide such questions” pertaining to the application of Article 4 Section 4
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/05/it_s_time_to_judge_the_judges.html