If anti-Trump judges don’t get the message soon, the country’s in big trouble

Nypost · Apr 18, 2026 · 475 words · By Post Editorial Board

Judicial Overreach/Limits on Judicial Power Support for 'Team Trump' Policies

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What to know about Judicial Overreach/Limits on Judicial Power

It looks like the judicial lawfare against Team Trump is passing its peak, as feral federal jurists get slapped down and state justices learn they can’t break the law to serve the Resistance.

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What happened

It looks like the judicial lawfare against Team Trump is passing its peak, as feral federal jurists get slapped down and state justices learn they can’t break the law to serve the Resistance.

Why it matters

Wednesday saw the comeuppance of obsessive anti-Trump Judge James Boasberg, the DC Circuit Court judge who’d repeatedly arrogated to himself the authority to overrule the president on national immigration policy.

Common ground

In March 2025, he issued an emergency order stopping any deportation of illegal immigrants to El Salvador.

Perspective signals

The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Name Calling / Labeling, Flag-Waving: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

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What evidence would most clearly confirm or weaken the claim that In Trump v. CASA last June, the high court ruled 6-3 that three district court jurists — John Coughenour in Washington state, Deborah Boardman in Maryland and Leo Sorokin in Massachusetts — had overstepped by issuing emergency nationwide injunctions blocking enforcement of Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship?
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Name Calling / Labeling 85% confidence

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Flag-Waving 70% confidence

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 6 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “In Trump v. CASA last June, the high court ruled 6-3 that three district court jurists — John Coughenour in Washington state, Deborah Boardman in Maryland and Leo Sorokin in Massachusetts — had overstepped by issuing emergency nationwide injunctions blocking enforcement of Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship.”

CORROBORATED

Multiple web search results reference a Supreme Court case, *Trump v. CASA*, occurring in June 2025, where the Court ruled on the authority of lower courts to issue nationwide injunctions, directly corroborating the main facts of the claim.

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web search NEUTRAL — Trump v. CASA, Inc., 606 U.S. 831 (2025), is a United States Supreme Court case addressing whether lower-court judges have the authority to issue "universal injunctions" to block the enforcement of po…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_v._CASA

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web search NEUTRAL — Trump v. CASA Inc.: Universal injunctions, in which district courts assert the power to prohibit enforcement of a law or policy against anyone, likely exceed the equitable authority that Congress has …
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/606/24a884/

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web search NEUTRAL — The Government argues that the District Courts lacked equitable authority to impose universal relief and has filed three nearly identical emergency appli-cations seeking partial stays to limit the pre…
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24a884_8n59.pdf

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Claim 2: “Consider Minnesota Judge Hannah Dugan, who in April 2025 obstructed federal agents trying to detain an illegal immigrant by helping the perp sneak out of her courtroom — though he’d been brought in over a violent assault.”

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Multiple web search results report that Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan was accused of, indicted for, and found guilty of obstructing federal agents while helping an undocumented immigrant evade ICE arrest, matching the core details of the claim.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Alan Bersten (born May 26, 1994) is an American professional Latin and ballroom dancer. He was a contestant in 2013 on the tenth season of So You Think You Can Dance and is currently a professional da…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Bersten

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Hannah C. Dugan (born 1959) is an American attorney who served as a Wisconsin circuit court judge for Milwaukee County from 2016 until her resignation in 2026 after a jury found her guilty of a felony…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Dugan

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Murder, She Baked is an American/Canadian television film series based on the cozy mystery novels written by Joanne Fluke. The television films are centered around small-town baker Hannah Swensen, por…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder,_She_Baked

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Claim 3: “Wednesday saw the comeuppance of obsessive anti-Trump Judge James Boasberg, the DC Circuit Court judge who’d repeatedly arrogated to himself the authority to overrule the president on national immigration policy.”

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Multiple web search results report that Judge James Boasberg was criticized for rulings on national immigration policy and that his authority was questioned by other judges or the appeals court. The claim's specific framing ('comeuppance,' 'obsessive anti-Trump') is editorial, but the core factual elements—Boasberg's rulings on immigration policy and subsequent judicial scrutiny—are reported across multiple web sources.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Emil Joseph Bove III (; AY-mill BOH-vee; born 1981) is an American attorney who has served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit since September …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Bove

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — James Emanuel "Jeb" Boasberg (born 1963) is an American lawyer and jurist serving as the chief judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. He was appointed in 2011 by Presi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Boasberg

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — John Glover Roberts Jr. (born January 27, 1955) is an American jurist who has served since 2005 as the 17th chief justice of the United States. Though primarily an institutionalist, he has been descri…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Roberts

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Claim 4: “The migrant was chased down and caught before he could do more harm; Dugan was arrested and charged, and then convicted of a felony in December.”

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Multiple web search results confirm that Judge Hannah Dugan was found guilty of felony obstruction related to helping an undocumented immigrant evade federal agents, matching the key outcomes described in the claim.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Kilmar Armando Ábrego García, a Salvadoran man living in the United States, was illegally deported on March 15, 2025, by the US government under the Trump administration, which called it "an administr…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_Kilmar_Abrego_G…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Operation Metro Surge was an operation by the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) with the stated purpose of apprehending undocumented i…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Metro_Surge

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Claim 5: “Now the DC Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that Boasberg overstepped majorly, with Judge Neomi Rao calling out his “a clear abuse of discretion.””

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Multiple web search results report that the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Judge James Boasberg overstepped his authority or abused his discretion regarding his contempt probe, aligning with the claim's core assertion.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (in case citations, D.C. Cir.) is one of the thirteen United States Courts of Appeals. It has the smallest geographical jurisdic…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit (in case citations, 4th Cir.) is a federal court located in Richmond, Virginia, with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the fo…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit (in case citations, 6th Cir.) is a federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following districts: Eastern Dist…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals…

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Claim 6: “In March 2025, he issued an emergency order stopping any deportation of illegal immigrants to El Salvador.”

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Multiple web search results reference Judge James E. Boasberg issuing orders regarding the temporary blocking of deportations, including mentions of El Salvador and Honduras, supporting the core claim that he issued such an order in March 2025.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Brandon Gene Gill (born February 26, 1994) is an American politician, media proprietor, and former investment banker serving as the U.S. representative for Texas's 26th congressional district since 20…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Gill

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In March 2025, the United States deported 238 illegal immigrants from Venezuela alleged to be gang members to El Salvador, to be immediately and indefinitely imprisoned without trial and without priso…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_2025_American_deportatio…

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