LOADING ERROR LOADINGAmong the onslaught of judicial rulings issued by courts in response to the Trump administration’s attempts to expand the president’s powers, a singular theme is emerging: Judges are pissed off. Whether on the page or from the bench, judges nationwide — including those President Donald Trump appointed — are expressing increased exasperation with the administration’s obfuscations and seeming reliance on plausible deniability as a primary or sole legal strategy. At the circuit court level, challengers to the Trump administration have a 59% win rate, with Republican-appointed circuit judges giving their votes to Trump 85% of the time and Democratic-appointed circuit judges voting against Trump 85% of the time. At the district court level, Trump’s challengers have won 60% of the cases brought, with Republican-appointed district judges ruling against Trump 55% of the time and Democratic-appointed judges ruling against the administration 63% of the time. MATHIEU LEWIS-ROLLAND via Getty ImagesA lack of credibility by the Trump administration and its lawyers was recognized by U.S. District Judge April Perry in Chicago, too.
