Courts

The constitution states that congress will write the laws. The next step is for the various agencies to write the regulations which establish the rules. The heads of these agencies report to the president and serve at his pleasure. The means they can be terminated at any time for any reason that pleases the president. The president issues an executive order and the agencies carry out that order. When a local federal judge places a hold on the order the Supreme Court has ruled that the judge does not have that authority. In the case of Trump v. CASA, Inc., the Supreme Court ruled 6–3 that federal courts generally lack the authority to issue "universal" or "nationwide" injunctions. The injunction temporarily stops the order until the Supreme Court rules. Since there are 1,700 federal judges this process could interfere with the operation of governing. There have been a dozen cases recently where local judges have stopped presidential executive orders using work arounds to avoid the Supreme Court ruling. This means each of these must go to the Supreme Court for ruling.