Sometimes The Battle Is Well Worth The Fight -- The Upside To The TRO's Coming With The Imperial Judiciary

Who was Humphrey and why is his Estate such a big deal for the Trump Administration?

This isn’t 2017. The nascent Trump Administration isn’t unprepared on both a policy and personnel basis to fight back against the onslaught of lawfare that has been unleashed as was the case 8 years ago.

There has always been a plan this time around.

The Executive Orders (EOs) that are the source of the lawfare now being waged by the Democrats’ Marxist/Progressive allies were carefully written — unlike in 2017 when the new Trump Administration was largely unprepared for the surprising upset of Hillary Clinton.

The EOs that led the way in 2017 — the Travel Ban, Expediting Environmental Review for Critical Infrastructure Projects, etc., — were scattershot, written on the fly, and without having a clear understanding how they would be challenged in courts across the country.

Then in March 2017 came the announcement by Jim Comey to Congress that Pres. Trump and his campaign were under investigation with regard to the Russia Collusion Hoax. Any momentum the Pres. Trump might have ever had in the first 60 days of his first term were lost at that point.

In 2025, the Trump Transition Team had a plan. Dozens of EOs were carefully drafted with a coherent theme — directly attacking the Administrative bureaucracy — the “Resistance” — that strangled his first term in its cradle. There was never any question that the Democrats and the Administrative bureaucracy would rerun the same playbook — charge into federal courts where they knew they would find politically sympathetic judges (GOP did the same to Biden in Texas in 2021) and seek TROs and Injunctions to grind all the new reform efforts to a halt.

But I don’t think the Democrats/Progressives anticipated Elon Musk and his engineer boy-geniuses, nor did they expect that the first target that would take multiple incoming torpedos from DOGE would be the federal programs that have funneled huge sums of money to the left-wing NGOs through a variety of slush funds.