As we saw with the recent Harvard CAPS-Harris poll, President Donald Trump’s agenda is widely popular, including his border actions and his efforts to cut fraud, waste, and abuse from the federal government.
Meanwhile, the Democrats in Congress have such incredibly low polling numbers that even CNN’s Jake Tapper is talking about it and understanding it’s a problem for them.
But what do they keep doing when faced with this?
Instead of concentrating on doing something positive, all they keep doing is attacking Trump.
READ MORE: Even CNN’s Jake Tapper Levels Hakeem Jeffries With the Evidence of How Much Trouble Dems Are in Now
New Poll: Trump Agenda Wildly Popular With Americans
However, I have to admit that Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) took it to a different level during a hearing of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet. He’s actually the ranking member — and he’s a lawyer.
U.S. Circuit Judge Timothy Tymkovich was testifying before the subcommittee about the urgent need for more federal judges since Joe Biden vetoed a bipartisan bill that would have added 66 new judges over ten years to the federal bench. The reason Biden did that was because after Nov. 5, that put Trump in the position to appoint the first 25 judges. Translation? For political reasons, Biden threw the judiciary and the shortage under the bus. So Tymkovich was trying to urge Congress to pass the bill again to get it done.
But Johnson decided to use some of his time for a bizarre attack on Trump. Now, I’m not sure exactly what he was trying to say here, but the judge’s response was just gold.
Johnson seemed to be theorizing that if Trump were to disobey a court order and be found guilty of contempt of court, it would be up to the U.S. Marshals to be the enforcement arm. He asked the judge if that was correct. The judge wasn’t going there, saying his “hypothetical would have to play itself out.”
What would happen if the U.S. Marshals “under the command of the Justice Department, at the direction of the president, refused to carry out a court order?” Johnson asked. “What would then be the state of our democracy?” he inquired.
Tymkovitch probably couldn’t believe it.
“Again, I’m here on behalf of the Judicial Conference to talk about the shortage of judges that we have, and I would comment on those needs in particular,” he said, putting the brakes on Johnson’s wacky question. No way was he going to go down that crazy road with Johnson.
Johnson is famously — or perhaps I should say infamously — known for his “Guam sinking” question some years ago.
It looks like things haven’t gotten better.
Maybe they can then send him to Guam, unless it’s tipped over. https://t.co/m88vrqf9AF
— Morning Answer (@MorningAnswer) February 25, 2025
Rep. Darrell Issa (R- CA), who was sitting next to Johnson during the subcommittee hearing, didn’t hold back.
“You try sitting next to this,” Issa said.
I’m thinking things are not going to be very pleasant at the next subcommittee meeting they have between these two after that.
