Rogue judges are causing roadblocks for the president’s agenda. It’s getting sickening at this point.
And the Trump White House was stopped dead in their tracks by this federal judge’s order.
A Biden-appointed federal judge, Jia Cobb, just slammed the brakes on Trump’s National Guard deployment in Washington, DC, ordering the President to stand down the troops he sent in to clean up the streets.
For months, over 2,000 Guardsmen have been on the ground doing what local leaders refused to do: restoring order and making the capital look like the seat of a superpower again instead of a third-world war zone.
Trump kicked off the operation back in August after a brutal beating of DOGE staffer Edward Coristine who got jumped trying to stop a carjacking.
But Judge Cobb, in her infinite wisdom from the safety of the bench, decided DC’s liberal mayor Muriel Bowser gets the final say.
She granted the city’s request for an injunction, claiming Trump overstepped his authority. The ruling is on ice until December 11 so the administration can appeal.
Cobb leaned hard on the Home Rule Act, the 1970s law that handed DC a measure of self-government.
She wrote: “While the President certainly may have some Article II powers to protect federal functioning and property, including in the District, such powers cannot justify the deployment of the DCNG [DC National Guard] in this case.”
The judge went further, insisting the feds have no right to bring in out-of-state Guard units or keep boots on the ground without Bowser’s permission.
DC sued Trump in September, whining that he didn’t get a permission slip from the mayor.
Trump didn’t stop at the Guard. For thirty days he even federalized the Metropolitan Police Department and flooded the city with federal agents who can actually make arrests. Crime plummeted. Streets got cleaner.
White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson fired back hard when speaking with the New York Post: “President Trump is well within his lawful authority to deploy the National Guard in Washington, DC, to protect federal assets and assist law enforcement with specific tasks.”
She called the lawsuit “nothing more than another attempt—at the detriment of DC residents—to undermine the President’s highly successful operations to stop violent crime in DC.”
The numbers don’t lie. Violent crime in the District nosedived once Trump’s troops showed up. Residents who’ve lived in fear for years finally felt safe walking their dogs after dark.
This isn’t just about DC. Trump has been using the capital as a proof-of-concept. He sent troops to Memphis, Chicago, and Portland too. Predictably, the courts blocked most of those moves.
The one silver lining? Unlike every other city in America, the federal government actually has direct constitutional authority over DC.
Right now the Supreme Court is deciding whether Trump can send the Guard into Chicago.
President Trump vowed to make America’s cities livable again. The courts can slow him down, but they can’t stop a movement backed by millions of fed-up citizens.
Stay tuned to the Conservative Column.
