“It has become ever more apparent that to our president the rule of law is but an impediment to his policy goals,” said U.S. District Judge John C. Coughenour. “The rule of law is, according to him, something to navigate around or simply ignore, whether that be for political or personal gain.”
Other judges were less scolding in their rulings, characterizing them as short-term pauses to give the legal cases a chance to develop without unleashing any genies that would be tough to put back in bottles.