A district court judge in Washington, D.C., has issued a response to recent attacks against him and his colleagues on the bench, saying that the rhetoric being directed at federal judges of late reflects a “fundamental misunderstanding” of the Constitution as well as the judiciary branch’s role in government.
The judge’s comments come as a litany of President Donald Trump’s executive orders and directives continue to be halted by judges appointed by presidents from both sides of the aisle.
Senior U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth, a Ronald Reagan-appointee who was unanimously confirmed by the Senate, on Monday called out “people from both inside and outside government,” saying that they have been falsely accusing the courts of “fomenting a constitutional crisis, usurping the Article II powers of the Presidency, undercutting the popular will, or dictating how Executive agencies can and should be run.”
“The subtext, if not the headline, of these accusations is that federal judges are motivated by personal political agendas,” Lamberth wrote. “I am not a political actor, and I have no agenda to press. I believe that the same is true of my colleagues on the federal bench.”
Lamberth’s three-page overture seeking to tamp down the hyperbolic discourse surrounding courts allegedly being “motivated by personal political agendas” came at the conclusion of a 22-page order granting a temporary restraining order (TRO) against the administration from enforcing Trump’s executive order...
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