You think there is only one president of the United States. There are two.

One, of course, is Donald Trump. He’s the duly elected president and he acts with constitutional authority as head of the executive branch.

But there’s another president – a collective one – that runs its own shadow executive branch. It is not just one person. It is an amalgamation of left-wing judges who blatantly issue orders they have no authority to issue, tossing out Trump’s legal executive orders. They do this because they know that, although their rulings are certain to be overturned by the Supreme Court, that will take time and in the meantime they will be able to cripple Trump’s ability to govern.

The most notorious member of this consortium is Hawaii’s Derrick Watson, who continually tried to overturn Trump’s anti-terrorism policies until the Supreme Court finally tossed his rulings out. Recently Judge Brian Morris joined the team by putting a stop to the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline even though Trump exercised his legal constitutional authority to grant a permit for the project.

Last week Judge Sharon Gleason made the odd ruling that the executive branch can’t reverse its own orders by overturning a Trump order and restoring an Obama-era ban on offshore drilling.

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And now we have a new member of the club. It’s U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg of San Francisco, who has tossed out Trump’s policy of returning asylum seekers to Mexico. Seeborg said his ruling was based on the idea that the Trump Administration didn’t properly follow “administrative law” in issuing the ruling. If that’s the case, of course, the Trump White House could issue the same exact order tomorrow following whatever administrative law Seeborg wants them to follow.

You want to lay odds that doesn’t get overturned, either by Seeborg or by another liberal judge? Yeah, me neither.

The fact of the matter is that Seeborg had probably decided before he ever heard arguments that he was going to toss out the executive order, and the only thing he was doing in the hearing itself was looking for the best pretext by which to do it. The Trump policy was designed to deal with the massive crush of so-called asylum-seekers who sneak across the border, claim they need political asylum and then disappear into the population while their cases are supposedly being processed. The vast majority, if they ever do make it to their hearings, are denied asylum because there’s no basis to show that they’re under any sort of political oppression.

The order sending all of them back to Mexico while their cases are being adjudicated was designed to prevent the problem of people blending into the country before receiving approval of their requests. It’s a perfect legal order and Trump had the constitutional authority to issue it. Just like he had the authority to issue the travel ban, the Keystone XL permit and the lifting of the ban on offshore drilling.

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Yet left-wing activists know they can judge-shop for friendly jurists who will issue orders they know will end up being reversed, but will cause trouble for Trump in the meantime. That is all any of this is intended to do.

The judges who issue these orders are abusing their authority and should be impeached by Congress. They won’t be, especially with Democrats now in control of the House, but they should be.