Activists in Black Robes: America’s Shadow Legislature

Activists in Black Robes: America’s Shadow Legislature

There is a reason the Founders gave Article III judges lifetime appointments and no army. They were supposed to interpret law quietly, not rewrite it loudly. On June 9, 2025, U.S. District Judge Jon S. Tigar, an Obama appointee sitting in San Francisco’s Northern District of California, issued a 52-page order blocking enforcement of three duly signed presidential executive orders targeting DEI programs and gender ideology mandates across the fed…