Partisan Judges, Florida Politics & No Place(s) For Pride – Top 3 Takeaways, September 3rd, 2025
Takeaway #1: Show me the judge & I’ll tell you the ruling
In theory, when it comes to the judiciary, the party of the president appointing federal judges shouldn’t be the biggest key in determining how they’ll rule on policy. After all, the law is the law, and while there’s often grey territory that’s tested, interpretations of the law applied to a set of circumstances shouldn’t be all that different. But the fact of the matter is that it is. On yesterday’s show I mentioned this: As of today, there have been 384 lawsuits filed against Team Trump’s administration for an average of greater than 1.7 new lawsuits per day. Suing has become the new form of lawfare by the Left. Also aided by having a majority of Democrat-appointed judges in federal courts, they’ve been highly effective in getting at least temporary victories until decisions have been heard by higher courts upon appeal. In total, out of the 384 lawsuits, only 25 have led to the subject of the suits being permanently blocked, with an additional 77 currently leading to temporary blocks of Trump’s agenda with 18 currently pending appeal. In other words, President Trump’s agenda has held up to legal scrutiny 69% of the time thus far. So, what’s changed? Not too much in a day, however we’re now up to 389 lawsuits – yes, there were five filed and recorded over just the past day – and there’s one more decision that’s been handed down against the Trump administration that will surely be appealed. Yesterday Federal Judge Charles Breyer of San Franciso (brother of former Supreme Court Justice Steven Breyer), ruled against the Trump administration's use of the National Guard to combat riots in LA earlier this year. Now, if all you knew about this judge was who his brother is, you could probably guess how the decision would have gone before it came in and you’d be right. This ruling led to me doing a little more digging. Dating back to President Trump’s first administration, what percentage of the time do you think Democrat appointed judges have sided with Trump in a decision? The answer is 16%. And when Republican appointed judges have reviewed the same material as Democrat appointed judges, they’ve side with the Trump administration 2.8 times often. And the reason why the Trump administration is seemingly always fighting an uphill fight is because 72% of the cases that have been brought, have been brought to Democrat-appointed judges first.
Takeaway #2: Blaise of Glory
I’m not sure an appointed politician has ever had a more immediate impact in the state than Florida’s new CFO and Chief Fire Marshall Blaise Ingoglia, with his statewide DOGE audit tour in full swing, and I’m not sure I’ve seen any statewide campaign come out swinging harder Blaise’s official rollout for CFO yesterday. He, of the four languages he speaks, delivered in his trademark no nonsense way, and his full embrace of the elimination of homesteaded property taxes as part of his campaign. He currently faces two GOP challengers in the race that will ultimately be on next year’s midterm ballot, however that number is no longer at three, as potentially his stiffest competition in Trump-backed Joe Gruters, is no longer running for the post since taking over as national chair of the GOP. There are two themes to watch in Florida’s Republican politics over the next year. 1) Will Florida’s Republican voters choose to support an end to homesteaded property taxes or to continue with the status quo? (or potentially run against it) and 2) The influence of President Trump with all statewide offices (potentially at odds with Governor DeSantis). Will the Trump-DeSantis feud continue? In reality, the candidates for governor and CFO will be on the ballot at the same time as a proposed amendment to end property taxes if the state legislature follows through with passing the proposed amendment to voters next November...however the primary performance of Republican candidates on the property tax issue will likely have a lot to say with whether homesteaded property taxes will go away or if we’ll continue to pay come 2027. Btw, related, standby for a notable gubernatorial bid that will be announced today...we’ll have an interview with that candidate on tomorrow’s show.
Takeaway #3: No place for pride?
As Proverbs says...When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with the humble is wisdom. In Tuesday’s administrative hearing with the city of Delray Beach contesting the Florida Department of Transportation’s order to take down their ‘pride’ themed mural at the intersection of Northeast 1st Street and Northeast 2nd Avenue...they were granted more time. In Tuesday’s hearing a deadline was extended until Friday for the city and state to submit additional materials to support their cases. This means the mural survives for at least another few days. Delray Beach Vice Mayor, Rob Long, who’s been trying to make a name for himself as he runs for the Florida House seat vacated by the late Joe Casello, is trying to make the case that it’s trespassing or destruction of property for the FDOT to apply proper traffic markings on a city street (instead of the homosexual alphabet’s agenda). Governor DeSantis sounded off on Tuesday as well saying: Now there's Delray Beach, there's Key West, they have basically taken the position, even though the law is what it is and even though FDOT has issued guidance, that they should just be able to do whatever they want. That's not the way this system of government operates. So today the ‘pride’ display will not go away today, and actual traffic markings will not be restored...and a lot of taxpayer money will continue to be spent in Delray Beach, which has now retained an attorney to fight the state in the matter. The Bible points out that ‘pride’ never works out in the end. That’s probably an indication of how this saga will end too.