This week’s Inside Scoop discusses President Donald Trump ‘s clash with the courts over his immigration policies and executive power. Magazine executive editor, Jim Antle, brings to life the pages of the Washington Examiner magazine with exclusive insight from the article authors.
Antle breaks down our cover story by Daniel Ross Goodman, Trump vs. the courts: Lessons from an unlikely source. Trump has been criticizing the courts for hindering his efforts to deport dangerous individuals who have illegally entered the country.
“We have thousands of people, some murderers, some drug dealers, and some of the worst, most dangerous people on Earth,” Trump said in an interview with NBC’s Meet the Press. “We’d have to have a million or 2 million or 3 million trials. I was elected to get them the hell out of here, and the courts are holding me from doing it.”
Trump could learn how to challenge the judiciary from an unlikely source. President Franklin D. Roosevelt also struggled with the courts when he wanted to pass a series of bills to get the country out of the great depression. He even tried to pack the courts to pass his “New Deal.” While court packing did not work, FDR was able to use his political popularity to battle against the courts. The courts often defer to public opinion because ultimately the people decide. While FDR used to build up the administrative state, Trump could look toward FDR’s strategy on how to tear the administrative state down.
Next, Antle is joined by Barnini Chakraborty who wrote how California‘s shift away from progressive policies is having positive impacts in cities like San Francisco, San Jose, and Oakland. Proposition 47, which decriminalized theft and drug possession, led to increased crime and fear for those living and visiting California. Residents became fed up, and just this year passed Proposition 36, which rolled back some of these policies.
“I didn’t think I would see it so quickly,” Chakraborty said. “I went to San Francisco, San Jose, and Oakland. I was shocked at just how much change had occurred by rolling back just a few progressive policies.”
She saw cleaner streets, retail stores returning, and more people comfortably walking the streets. Chakraborty believes it will take time for California to return as a popular tourist destination. Gov. Gavin Newsom‘s recent push to “take back the streets” and clear homeless encampments could help people see the Golden State is trying to take a step in the right direction and fix the significant government and quality of life issues. Though one cannot help but notice, this more politically moderate leaning approach comes just in time for the California governor to make a move for a 2028 presidential run.
Finally, Zachary Faria wrote how Hollywood doesn’t deserve a tariff bailout. President Trump’s obsession with tariffs is driven in part by a desire to restore industries to the American communities they have increasingly abandoned. Due to high costs it’s cheaper to fly people around the world for productions than actually shoot in Hollywood. Trump announced a 100% tariff on foreign films, hoping to bring those filmmaking jobs back to the states. He sees it as a sort of Hollywood tariff bailout.
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Faria argues, with tinsel town cranking out biased content creating box office flop, after flop… maybe Hollywood doesn’t deserve a bailout. At least not while they’re turning out unapologetically left-leaning content nobody seems to want to watch, anyway.
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