Morning Joe Lists Biden Orders Struck Down By Judges To Rip ‘Reckless’ JD Vance Claim
Morning Joe host Mika Brzezinski listed executive actions taken by former President Joe Biden that were struck down by federal judges in rebuttal of MAGA Republican claims that efforts to block President Donald Trump’s orders amounted to a “judicial coup.”
Vice President JD Vance sparked controversy Sunday night with a post on X, claiming the federal judiciary could not “control” the “legitimate” power of the president.
Vance’s remarks came in response to a New York judge’s decision to block Elon Musk’s DOGE platform from accessing Treasury Department payment systems. The post drew swift criticism from legal experts, who challenged Vance’s interpretation of presidential authority.
However, it quickly gained traction among Trump loyalists, including Senator Mike Lee (R-UT), who denounced legal pushback against Trump’s directives as a “coup.”
Brzezinski paused commentary during Monday’s Morning Joe to list out actions taken by judges to stall Biden’s actions as a demonstration that this was part of the checks and balances typically seen by an administration pushing a boundary.
President Biden signed 162 executive orders during his term in office, several of which were also blocked by federal judges.
One of his first orders, created by, created a 100 day deportation ban, but that was suspended by a judge in Texas who claimed the order could cause the state imminent and irreparable harm. Six months later, a federal judge in Louisiana granted a preliminary injunction against the Biden administration’s suspension of new oil and gas leases on federal land.
Biden’s vaccine mandate for federal contractors was blocked by a US District court judge in Georgia. In 2022, a Louisiana judge stopped the Biden administration from lifting Title 42, a public health order aimed at stopping the spread of communicable diseases, but was used to expel migrants at the southern border. The judge ruled the order violated administrative law.
Two months later, president Biden was told he could not enforce his executive order protecting the LGBTQ community from discrimination in schools and the workplace. Then, in August of 2022, a Texas court ruled against the white house’s requirement for hospitals to provide emergency abortions regardless of a state’s ban on the procedure.
This past fall, a federal judge in Missouri temporarily blocked the white house’s student debt forgiveness plan. Biden’s executive order shielding undocumented immigrants who are married to U.S. Citizens from deportation, was struck down by a federal judge in Texas. And at the very end of last year, a judge ruled the Biden administration has to stop selling unused border wall materials.
The Biden administration accepted when the courts pushed back. But we’re in a situation here where one can surmise very carefully that there may not be a similar situation.
Co-host Sam Stein then pointed to a ruling by Florida judge Aileen Cannon against Biden’s vaccine mandate and the praise it drew from MAGA.
My favorite example of this actually took place in November of 2021, when a relatively obscure judge, Aileen Cannon, stopped the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate for health care workers. She ended up being canonized—pardon the word—for her act and is now a judicial star in conservative ranks.
So, it does happen regularly. The Biden administration respected it; it was part of our system of checks and balances. JD Vance’s tweet suggesting otherwise is plainly reckless.
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