Courts in Crisis: When Judges Overstep and Citizens Pay the Price

In the current “hush money” trial involving former President Trump, Judge Juan Merchan has, on several occasions, used his federal bench to undermine the constitutional rights of a former president, from issuing gag orders to not recusing himself from the case.

We find ourselves in a time when, as a free nation, we allow judges to revoke people's rights simply because they can. It seems that the balance of power has shifted, and instead of a system "of the people, by the people," it now appears to be "of the judges, by the judges.”