“Legal Coup”: Norm Eisen Orchestrates 152 Lawsuits to Paralyze Trump Agenda, Critics Say (Video)
by Worthy News Washington D.C. Bureau Staff
(Worthy News) – Norm Eisen, a longtime Democrat operative and former Obama White House ethics czar, is under fire from conservatives for helping coordinate a sprawling web of 152 lawsuits aimed at blocking President Donald Trump’s agenda–raising questions about the politicization of the judiciary and the use of taxpayer-funded legal activism to obstruct an elected president.
Eisen, a fellow at the Brookings Institution and co-founder of left-leaning watchdog groups, has backed legal challenges against nearly every major Trump initiative since his return to the White House. From efforts to streamline the federal workforce to the proposed reorganization of longstanding government programs, Eisen’s legal campaign has become a central tool of the progressive “resistance” movement.
Among the more controversial suits is a challenge to Executive Order 14210, which seeks to overhaul bloated and unaccountable sections of the federal bureaucracy. Trump’s order would shift thousands of employees to at-will status and consolidate redundant agencies–a move supporters say is long overdue. But Eisen-aligned plaintiffs claim the order violates constitutional protections, despite previous court rulings affirming broad executive authority over the federal workforce.
Another lawsuit, filed in Maryland, seeks to stop the administration from winding down AmeriCorps–a taxpayer-funded civil service program Eisen’s team calls “essential” but critics say has become a bloated progressive jobs program with little oversight or accountability. Eisen’s allies argue that only Congress can end the program, while Trump officials contend the executive branch has full discretion over how it implements federally funded initiatives.
Conservative leaders have blasted Eisen’s legal crusade as a thinly veiled political campaign masquerading as public interest litigation.
“Norm Eisen isn’t defending the Constitution–he’s exploiting it,” said Heritage Foundation fellow Hans von Spakovsky. “This is lawfare, plain and simple: a deliberate strategy to bog down the Trump administration in endless lawsuits and sabotage reform from the inside out.”
Others point to the hypocrisy of Democrats who decry “election denialism” but continue to use courts to undermine a duly elected president’s policies at every turn.
Despite the pushback, Eisen remains defiant. “The law is one of the last guardrails we have,” he told MSNBC. “We’ll use every legal tool available to stop authoritarianism.”
But critics warn that if Eisen’s lawsuits succeed, it may not be Trump who is restrained–it may be the presidency itself.
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