In less than two months in power, the new owner of the White House, Joe Biden, managed to sign more than 50 decrees.
This is an absolute record in the entire history of the United States - the predecessors were much more modest.
Obama signed five decrees in the first week of his presidency, Trump four.
Biden - as much as 37 (if you count memoranda and other documents that have the force of law).
Then it went not so heap, but still a lot.
Of course, many surmise that the senile president, in comparison with whom the Kremlin elders from the Politburo of the 80s look vigorous zealous, does not toss and turn at night without sleep, inventing more and more new decrees in order to load the staff of his lawyers with work in the morning.
Rather, Biden only obediently signs the papers that are put on his table, and completely different people prepare them - younger and more energetic.
The meaning of this hysterical lawmaking is the same - as soon as possible to destroy all "Trump's legacy" and return the state machine to the rails laid in 2008-2016, during the eight years of the rule of the most progressive and liberal president - B.Kh.
Obama, for whom the current head of the White House worked as a vice.
The media do not hesitate to justify their beloved Joe: they say, he is forced to do this in order to quickly clean up the Augean stables left over from his predecessor - "the worst president in history".
And what Biden said even before the elections: they say, only dictators rule the country with the help of decrees ... well, he meant Trump.
Indeed, out of more than fifty decrees and memoranda signed by Biden, at least 22 are aimed at abolishing the norms and laws adopted under Trump, primarily in the field of immigration and energy.
First of all, Biden stopped funding the Great Wall of Mexico, and also made it much easier for migrants, including illegal ones, to integrate into American society.
The border service significantly cut funding and began to twist its arms, demanding a tolerant attitude towards border violators.
Inspired by rumors that the new president is going to announce an "immigration amnesty" for 11 million (!!!) migrants, hundreds of thousands of beggars in need of help, fleeing from creditors and bandits, citizens of poor Central American countries rushed north.
Mexico, which had grumbled at Washington for the draconian restrictions on migration for the previous four years (a significant part of the economy of this country is tied to migrant workers working in the States), found itself in an awkward position: firstly, seekers of happiness from Honduras and El Salvador in huge numbers accumulated on its territory, secondly, organized crime has sharply intensified, sensing that there is no need to be afraid of the new US authorities.
“They see him (Biden -
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) as a migrant president, and many are going to get to the United States,” Mexican President Manuel Lopez Obrador said in a Skype conversation with Sleepy Joe.
"We need to work together to regulate this flow."
It seems that the Mexican authorities themselves are not happy that Washington has seriously eased the restrictions imposed by Trump.
Meanwhile, the number of illegal immigrants detained on the border with Mexico has already reached a record level over the past 15 years - 100 thousand people in February alone.
There are many children and adolescents among them.
And there is nowhere to put them - "concentration camps", as the media called during the Trump era, the centers for temporary detention of separated from their parents underage migrants (now, under Biden, they are politically correctly called "accommodation facilities for children of migrants") are packed to capacity.
It got to the point that even NASA provided one of its facilities in California to accommodate the detainees.
The US Department of Homeland Security has asked the Secretary of Defense to leave the army units stationed there until September.
But even the 4 thousand soldiers allocated by the Pentagon to strengthen the southern border may not be enough - after all, more and more waves of refugees are rolling in from the south, and there are more and more of them ...
In other words, the Biden administration has provoked a deep and threatening national security crisis in just two months.
Even in the Democratic camp, they are already beginning to understand this: Senator from West Virginia Joe Manchin said that what is happening on the Mexican border is "a crisis, oh, this is a crisis."
In fairness, it must be said that Manchin is known as the most conservative Democrat in Congress - devout liberals will not turn their backs to condemn Biden's immigration policy.
And since the word “condemn” has already sounded, it is worth paying attention to the force that alone is capable of stopping the liberal bacchanalia of the new administration.
That is, in fact, on the judges.
The fact is that in the United States, the judiciary can easily block presidential decrees.
Even a trial judge can make a decision suspending such an order.
Of course, the White House has the right to appeal against it in a higher court - and so on up to the Supreme Court, but until a final decision is made, the decree will not work.
It is in this way that liberal judges have constantly put a spoke in Trump's wheels, overturning his immigration reforms.
And now the time has come for the Democrats to receive a return gift from the Trumpists.
"Republican prosecutors are pursuing judicial attacks on record numbers of Biden decrees and overseeing a favorable process thanks to the multitude of conservative judges appointed by Trump to the Federal Collegium," The Washington Times sounded the alarm.
If Biden has already set a record for the number of decrees he signed in the first months of his presidency, then Trump, as it turned out, is also a kind of record holder - for the number of judges he appointed.
During his four years in the White House, Big Donald managed to appoint 234 judges, of which 174 were district judges (to the courts of first instance), 54 judges to the second instance courts of appeal, three judges of the International Trade Court and three judges of the Supreme Court: Neil Gorsuch, Brett Cavanaugh and Amy Connie Barrett.
While the trinity, which Trump had been counting on in the fight for the presidency, did not help him in any way, the huge army of conservative judges has not gone anywhere since Trump's departure from the White House.
And now she has come to the fore in the fight against the dashing leftist-liberal Biden administration.
Texas and Arizona were the first to oppose Biden's decree suspending the deportation of illegal migrants for three months.
Trump-appointed Judge Drew Barnett Tipton suspended Biden's decree in early February, backing State Attorney General Ken Paxton.
The judge motivated his decision by the fact that Texas will suffer more damage than the federal government.
Tipton's ruling will be appealed in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit - bad news for Democrats, as it is one of the most conservative courts in the country (there are 12 Republican judges versus five Democrats).
There is little chance of overturning this decision in the Supreme Court, where there are three liberals for six conservative judges so far (so far, since the Democrats' blue dream is to expand the composition of the Supreme Soviet to 15 people - at the expense of the liberals, of course).
Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich has filed a lawsuit against Biden's decree restricting the deportation and even arrest of illegal immigrants.
“The blind release of thousands of people, including convicted criminals and those who may be spreading COVID-19 in our state, is an unfair move and a violation of federal law,” Brnovich said.
And a week ago, the Attorney General of Montana Austin Knudsen joined Brnovich's claim.
Republicans, of course, understand that the left, under the guise of little thinking grandfather Biden, is trying to establish a one-party regime in the country with the help of presidential decrees that do not require congressional approval.
And if they succeed, then the Republican Party will be removed from power for many years.
Therefore, Republicans are using the tool they still have with might and main, filing lawsuits against the attempts of the Biden administration to destroy Trump's legacy.
And this applies not only to immigration policy.
For example, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, joined by his colleagues from 18 other Republican states, filed a motion with the Supreme Court seeking an order to ban federal funding for abortion through the Title X family planning program. “Using Title X Dollars to Fund or Promote Abortion is a violation of the law, - said Yost.
"And I intervene to stop it, whatever the president's personal plans are."
12 states have sued the Biden administration over a decree establishing the Inter-Agency Working Group on the Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases.
By returning the United States to the Paris Climate Agreement, Biden dealt a painful blow to American industry, which had just felt relieved after Trump's protectionist policies.
Experts of the group created by Biden quickly calculated that over the past two years, the United States has emitted $ 9.5 trillion of carbon dioxide, methane and other harmful gases into the atmosphere and now must pay a tax on these emissions.
The industrial states did not agree with this and stated that Biden's decree violated the principle of separation of powers and that Biden had no right to take such actions on his own, without the support of Congress.
A coalition of states that challenged Biden's climate change policy was led by Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, promising to "end this decree and protect state families."
The prosecutors and judges of the "red" (ie, republican) states have also been joined by a powerful group of corporate lawyers defending the benefits of large resource companies.
The Western Energy Alliance, a Denver-based legal organization that provides legal support to the energy industry in 13 western US states, has filed a lawsuit challenging Biden's moratorium on new contracts for oil and gas production in federal lands.
“We love our chances in court,” said WEA President Kathleen Sgamma.
"More than 230 judges appointed by Trump are very important."
And so it looks like it will be with most of the new president's decrees.
The media learned that the attorneys general of some republican states are even going to encroach on the sacred - on the decisions of the Biden administration on the inclusion of transgender people in sports in schools and colleges and their return to the ranks of the armed forces (under Trump, this Obama outrage was put to an end).
Democrats are trying their best to keep a good face on a bad game.
Elliot Minkberg, a senior fellow at the liberal organization People for the American Way, reluctantly agrees that the number of "very conservative" judges appointed by Trump could be a problem for the Biden administration.
But he is pinning his hopes on US Attorney General Merrick Garland, appointed a week ago, the most liberal lawyer ever to occupy the chair.
The key question here is how long it will take for Biden's Justice Department to fight Trump's Republican judges.
“It looks like Biden will spend his presidency fighting Republican judges who are blocking his political decisions for legally dubious reasons,” lamented journalist Ian Millheiser.
In other words, Biden will continue to issue orders at the speed of a laser printer, and the judges and prosecutors of the Republican states will block them, eventually bringing the process to automaticity.
Well, the presidency will be interesting.
The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editorial board.