Charlie Kirk on Judges, Injunctions, and Executive Power

Showing 12 Constitutional Law videos from Charlie Kirk's video collection.

Constitutional Law here mostly means the fight over how much power federal judges have to check a president, a fight Charlie Kirk treated as one of the defining stories of Trump's second term. He and Breitbart's Alex Marlow walked through how a single federal judge, sometimes in a jurisdiction as obscure as the Northern Mariana Islands, could issue a nationwide injunction freezing a presidential action, arguing this had become the left's last real point of leverage after losing at the ballot box and in Congress, since many of the judges involved dated back to appointments under Clinton, Obama, and Biden. Kirk applied a similar framework to the Department of Government Efficiency's spending cuts, framing the underlying constitutional question as whether the executive branch is actually obligated to spend every dollar Congress appropriates, and to the deportation of Abrego Garcia, an MS-13 member removed despite a Supreme Court ruling, which Kirk defended under the Alien Enemies Act even as a student pressed him on due process. Not everyone in this space shared Kirk's framing: legal commentator Kate Shaw argued that Trump was drawing more injunctions simply because he was attempting more legally dubious actions, noting that eight of the judges ruling against him had been appointed by Trump himself.