The Point Of Lawfare Is To Overturn Any Elections Republicans Win

Article author: 
Joy Pullmann
Article publisher: 
The Federalist
Article date: 
25 August 2025
Article category: 
Our American Future
Medium
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The Atlantic reports the avalanche of leftist lawsuits are cut-and-paste operations designed to overturn election results Democrats don’t like...

The vast majority of the nearly 400 lawsuits filed against the second Trump administration in its first seven months, Scherer reports, did not organically arise from American needs and on-the-ground realities. No, they were pre-planned in advance...

The truth is, Democrats as a party no longer respect election results, a key component of self-government. They have moved on from respecting Americans’ individual sovereignty to dominating us by any means necessary.

Courts have thus become an essential component of Democrats’ election-denial political strategy...

Why do the hard but fair political work of getting major measures through Congress when you can simply run your policy preferences through unelected courts willing to commandeer the entire nation...

Some of these court cases are complicated, but most of them are not. Most are at core about prohibiting elected, civilian control of the U.S. government. For example, most of the lawsuits about immigration attempt to prohibit the president from actually following the law and deporting people ineligible for entering U.S. soil. And of course the president has obvious constitutionally granted direct power over executive agencies. Why call it the “executive branch” if it is not in fact controlled by the executive?...