I’m starting to miss the days when liberal activist judges had some familiarity with the law and some notion that their powers had a tenuous connection to constitutional checks and balances.

Even in the mad competition between Obama and Biden judges to simply declare themselves rulers of the land, Judge Indira Talwani, an Obama appointee, is in her own league, having not only overriden President Trump, but also Congress, declaring that it couldn’t block Medicaid payments to Planned Parenthood despite the existence of a bill that did just that.

Why not?

The abortion provider claimed that Congress had violated the Constitution “by retaliating against them in violation of the First Amendment”. Since apparently the First Amendment covers the right to kill babies.

Tawlani took up the argument that the Big Beautiful Bill “burdens the exercise of Planned Parenthood Federation and its Members’ First Amendment right of association” by not giving them money to kill children and that she has to urgently intervene since “restricting Members’ ability to provide healthcare services threatens an increase in unintended pregnancies” and thus some babies may survive.

All of this has as much connection to the Constitution, never mind the values of the framers, as a hallucinating crackhead pounding on the door of the Burger King while imagining it’s a spaceship. There is nothing legal or American about any of this. It’s simply evil distilled into a lawless arrogance so completely ignorant that it’s almost comical if it weren’t also so horrifying.