The Left is fighting tooth and nail to stop President Trump. But their playbook is open for all to see.
Now Democrats are reeling after their secret plan to undercut Trump was just leaked.
Democrats are gearing up to pour millions of dollars into legal battles against President Donald Trump’s executive orders, but according to legal expert John Yoo, they won’t have much to show for it.
Yoo, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and former deputy assistant attorney general, predicts that Trump’s legal team will successfully defend the majority of his executive actions.
“Trump will have some of the nation’s finest attorneys defending his executive orders and initiatives, and the Democrats will waste millions of dollars losing in court,” Yoo told Fox News Digital.
He estimated that while legal challenges may delay implementation, Trump will ultimately prevail on “two-thirds or more” of his executive orders.
Since taking office, Trump has already signed at least 63 executive orders in just a few weeks, including 26 on his first day alone. His orders reflect a decisive shift toward his “America First” agenda — cutting government waste, reinstating protections for women’s sports, and deporting thousands of illegal immigrants who entered under Biden’s policies.
One of the biggest targets of Democratic outrage is Trump’s creation of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which is now investigating wasteful spending, corruption, and financial mismanagement across federal agencies. The move has sparked fierce opposition, with Left-wing officials scrambling to challenge the administration in court.
Determined to resist Trump’s policies at every turn, a coalition of Democratic state attorneys general and local officials vowed to wage a legal war against the administration. But their battle isn’t limited to the courtroom — top Democrats have made it clear they’re taking the fight to the streets.
“We are going to fight it legislatively. We are going to fight it in the courts. We’re going to fight it in the streets,” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries declared in January.
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy echoed the sentiment, boasting, “Our biggest weapon historically, over three years alongside the Trump administration, has been the bully pulpit and a whole lot of legal action, so my guess is it will continue.”
Meanwhile, Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, turned up the rhetoric even further, vowing at a protest over DOGE and its chair, Elon Musk, “We are gonna be in your face, we are gonna be on your a–es, and we are going to make sure you understand what democracy looks like, and this ain’t it.”
This legal onslaught comes after years of what Trump has called “lawfare” — weaponized prosecutions aimed at derailing his political career. Throughout his first term, Democrats pushed numerous investigations and impeachments. More recently, Trump faced politically motivated criminal indictments in New York, Georgia, and from Biden’s Justice Department, all designed to damage his 2024 campaign.
Now, according to Yoo, Democrats have pivoted from trying to destroy Trump personally to using the courts as a tool to obstruct his presidency.
“I think that what is going on now is different than lawfare,” Yoo explained. “The Democrats are not attacking Trump personally and there is no election. Instead, they are suing Trump as President to stop his official policies.”
He pointed out that Republicans have also taken Democratic presidents to court over controversial policies, such as Obama’s Affordable Care Act and DACA, as well as Biden’s attempt to unilaterally forgive student loan debt in 2022.
“Turnabout is fair play,” Yoo remarked.
Despite the flood of lawsuits, Trump remains confident that his administration will come out on top. While some judges have issued temporary injunctions against orders like his move to end birthright citizenship, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt dismissed the rulings as legally baseless.
“We believe that the injunction actions that have been issued by these judges, have no basis in the law and have no grounds,” Leavitt told reporters Wednesday. She made it clear that while the administration will comply with judicial orders, it expects to win in the end.
“And we will again, as the president said very clearly yesterday, comply with these orders. But it is the administration’s position that we will ultimately be vindicated, and the president’s executive actions that he took were completely within the law,” she said.
Leavitt also called out the broader pattern of political lawfare against Trump, saying, “This is the continuation of the weaponization of justice that we have seen against President Trump. He fought it for two years on the campaign trail—it won’t stop him now.”
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