(Editor's note: This is an editorial that ran in the opinion section of the 10-18-17 edition of the Kokomo Perspective.) With all the smoke and mirrors from the liberal media, both written and spoken, you would think President Donald Trump has accomplished nothing in his first days in office. The press is consumed by President Trump’s tweets while he calmly goes about changing and improving the federal judiciary and promoting change to the Iran Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. Both initiatives were required in the best interests of the United States.

First President Trump, as stated in a “Wall Street Journal” opinion by Kimberly A. Strassel, “is stocking the courts with a class of brilliant young textualists bearing little relation to even their Reagan or Bush predecessors. Mr. Trump has now nominated 60 judges, filling more vacancies than Barack Obama did in his first year.” Approximately 160 court openings remain to be filled which will allow Mr. Trump to strengthen conservative determinations in the future.

Interestingly, it was the decision by Democrat Senator Harry Reid to eliminate the filibuster for judicial nominees that has allowed the un-fettered nomination approvals by Congress of Trump’s judicial appointments. Both the Democrats and Republicans had used the filibuster to stop the nomination of judges they opposed.

White House Counsel Don McGann, and the much-maligned Senator Mitch McConnell, have been instrumental in a singular effort to have Trump’s nominees approved. Strassel writes that McGann has long been obsessed with constitutional law and the risks of an all-powerful administrative state. The focus is on promoting jurists who understand the unique challenges of our big government times. In other words, keep politics out of law interpretation.

Ms. Strassel concludes by saying, “The country has moved as has Congress. The proof is in the extraordinary class of judicial nominees now coming through. Mr. Trump will keep baiting the media with shiny objects. In the background, government is being redone.” It is about time!

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President Trump has called for a re-evaluation of President Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran and well he should. In an article in the “Wall Street Journal” written by David Ripkin and James Connaughton, it is pointed out that the agreement violates federal law, namely the American Medical Isotopes Production Act of 2012. The 2012 statute seeks to end the nuclear proliferation risk associated with foreign production of radioactive substances for medical use using weapons-grade highly enriched uranium. Doctors in the United States use an isotope, moly-99 in millions of procedures each year to detect cancer, heart disease, and other lethal illnesses.

The 2012 law by Congress was an attempt to end exports of highly enriched uranium while maintaining sufficient U.S. production to satisfy domestic requirements. With passage of the Iran nuclear deal the Obama administration failed to fulfill the requirements of the American Medical Isotopes Production Act of 2012. I have my doubts that anyone in the Obama Administration even knew about the 2012 act. But someone should have known that the act existed.

In the meantime, Moly-99 is not being produced by the U.S. government and the government continues to export weapons-grade uranium overseas for production of isotopes by Iran and others. This was exactly what the bill was supposed to stop. But the Obama administration, knowing there would be little support for an agreement with Iran on a treaty on nuclear proliferation, achieved their goal by having Obama use “executive agreement”.

It is reported by several news outlets the Obama Administration gave Iran $150 billion up front to sign the treaty. What person in their right mind would pay a king’s ransom without first seeing results? As my Mother used to say, “This doesn’t make good walking around sense.”

In spite of all the turmoil surrounding President Trump, he is repairing damage done by the Obama Administration.