Judges, many appointed by Trump, can stall much of Biden’s agenda

This appeared in The Millennial Source

As the saying goes, what’s good for the goose is good for the gander. In political parlance, that would translate to, what restricts a Republican president restricts a Democratic president.

When President Donald Trump entered office, his party controlled both chambers of Congress, giving him significant freedom to roll out his agenda. President Joe Biden begins his term with a similar situation: Democrats took control of the House in 2018 and then the Senate after the January runoff elections in Georgia.

Even with control of Congress, Trump and Biden turned to executive orders (and memorandums, which are essentially EOs by another name) to kick-start their respective administrations, not waiting on the slow-moving legislative body to take action.

Trump passed executive orders on immigration, health care and infrastructure within his first week. That flurry of activity in Trump’s early days has been outpaced by Biden, who has already signed more than twenty executive orders related to the COVID-19 pandemic, the economy and lobbying, as well as others to repeal Trump’s agenda.

Many of Trump’s executive orders were challenged in the courts and were either temporarily halted or prevented…