Jonathan Turley says one government branch ‘in the mood’ to put federal judges’ egos in check

George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley said Tuesday evening on Fox News that judges are being reminded that they’re “appointed, not anointed” as the U.S. Supreme Court rules in the Trump administration’s favor on some of its top cases.

In a ruling issued from the Supreme Court Tuesday, the justices halted a lower court’s order that sought to force the reinstatement of thousands of federal probationary employees after the Trump administration fired them. On “The Ingraham Angle,” host Laura Ingraham asked Turley about the recent ruling, calling out how the lower court’s demand to rehire the probationary employees was “bizarre.”

“This judge secured a seven-vote vote against him on this issue,” Turley said. “The president of the United States is allowed to run the executive branch, and these judges have to remember that they’ve been appointed, not anointed. There is a system here in which a president is allowed to reduce the size of government, look for waste, and many of these early orders have been reversed for that reason.”

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On March 13, U.S. District Court Judge William Alsup, a Clinton appointee, directed the departments of Defense, Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, Energy, Interior, and Treasury to reinstate more than 16,000 probationary employees, stating the Office of Personnel Management violated established procedures by firing the workers.

The Trump administration took the case to the Supreme Court in March and asked it to “stop the ongoing assault on the constitutional structure before further damage is wrought.”

“So I think that what you’re beginning to see is that the system is correcting itself,” Turley said. “But I think Congress is in the mood to step in to make sure it doesn’t happen again.”

In addition to the Supreme Court’s ruling on probationary workers, the justices also gave the Trump administration two wins Monday in cases involving the president’s use of deportations. In a 5-4 ruling, the high court announced the Trump administration would be allowed to deport migrants linked to the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua to El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, after a district judge attempted to halt the order.

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