After 100 days of Trump 2.0, America’s southern border is officially secure. Illegal border crossings are at their lowest levels in decades.

But President Trump’s push for border security, among other policies, has hit superfluous judicial roadblocks every step of the way. After the Trump administration refused to return two airplanes deporting illegal immigrants to El Salvador last month, the U.S. District Court for D.C. found probable cause to hold Trump in contempt, claiming the administration demonstrated a “willful disregard” for an emergency order to turn those flights around.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit temporarily stayed contempt proceedings against Trump while it reviews a flood of pleadings on the subject (including ours), but the threat of contempt is still very much alive.

The courts are in a perilous dash to stop Trump’s immigration policy based on old and proven laws. In the courts’ rush to judgment (pun intended), the often one-sided, policy-driven rulings are giving the judicial branch the worst possible taint — as an enemy of electoral democracy.

The attempt to prosecute contempt is a bridge way........

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