Judge Randolph Moss, an Obama appointee, has blocked President Trump’s latest emergency declaration on the southern border.
The order halts enforcement of a policy meant to stop illegal border crossings and limit asylum claims. It also gives the administration until mid-July to appeal.
Cue the legal circus.
BREAKING: Obama-appointed Judge Moss overturns Trump’s emergency declaration, demanding the border reopen for illegals pic.twitter.com/txfaseFxzs
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According to Moss, Trump overstepped his authority under the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952. He argued that the president can’t invent a new immigration process just because Congress won’t act.
The irony, of course, is that Congress rarely acts on immigration at all. They prefer to fundraise off the chaos while federal judges patch together policy from the bench.
Moss’s 128-page opinion reads like a lecture in constitutional law.
He acknowledges the flood of illegal crossings and the overloaded asylum system. Still, he insists the president must wait for lawmakers to do something about it.
He may as well be waiting for snow in July.
What’s raising eyebrows is how Moss issued a nationwide injunction, just days after the Supreme Court told lower courts to stop doing exactly that.
In late June, the Court ruled that district judges can’t block presidential actions for the entire country unless it’s part of a certified class action.
Moss claims this case qualifies; and legally, it does. Critics still call it judicial activism with a footnote.
This isn’t Moss’s first rodeo. Back in 2020, he threw out a Justice Department effort to speed up executions, citing a lack of congressional authority.
He appears to be developing a habit: stand in the way of executive action, especially when it’s coming from the right.
If this all feels familiar, that’s because it is. In 2019, Trump declared a border emergency and rerouted $8 billion from other agencies to build the wall.
Federal judges rushed in to stop it. Congress passed a resolution to end it. Trump vetoed. Wash, rinse, repeat.
Now, in 2025, the same script is unfolding with different actors.
Trump again declared a border emergency. Again, a judge stepped in. Again, Congress remains on the sidelines, checking the wind before saying anything of substance.
Many on the right argue this ruling invites more illegal crossings and makes it harder to enforce immigration law. They see it as part of a broader trend where unelected judges block policies the people voted for. Critics on the left, meanwhile, call it a victory for human rights.
Both sides agree on one thing: the Supreme Court will likely have the final word.
This legal spat over asylum forms is part of a broader fight about who runs the country.
Is it the elected president, accountable to voters? Or is it the judiciary, answering to no one but precedent and tenure?
As for the border, it remains a mess.
Human smugglers aren’t waiting on court opinions. Families are still risking everything to cross. Border agents are left holding the line while Washington keeps moving the goalposts.
Expect the administration to appeal soon, and expect this case to end up in the Supreme Court’s lap. Again.
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