Megyn Kelly calls Obama-appointed federal judges “absolute idiots” who were hired because of their “DEI profile”
Kelly: The “judges need to be very careful because if they push the executive too far, ... they will trigger a constitutional crisis that will leave them feckless and powerless in a dangerous and provocative way”
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Megyn Kelly calls Obama-appointed federal judges "absolute idiots" who were hired because of their "DEI profile"
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From the February 13, 2025, edition of SiriusXM's The Megyn Kelly Show
MEGYN KELLY (HOST): The bottom line is Trump's winning. His executive powers will be affirmed as they have been bit by bit in these lower courts.
And I think if this thing goes up to the Supreme Court, any of these things, testing what Trump has the power to do, only in the most extreme cases are they going to slap his hand, because the Supreme Court has no enforcement mechanism. This has been the truth about the Article III courts from the dawn of the Constitution. They're all afraid because they really don't have any real way of making the executive branch comply. It's kind of like a “because we said so" situation for a parent. And because of separation of powers, everybody has obeyed the courts since the dawn of time. I mean, that's for the most part, that's just the respect that we have.
But all those Article III judges need to be very careful because if they push the executive too far, especially this executive, they will trigger a constitutional crisis that will leave them feckless and powerless in a dangerous and provocative way. And while some of these federal district court judges are truly too stupid to understand that -- I mean, we saw all these DEI hires under Obama. We saw some of these confirmation hearings that get through. These judges were absolute idiots. They didn't understand anything about the Constitution, but they had the right DEI profile. And so they got confirmed by a Democrat-controlled senate.
So some are idiots. But the Supreme Court is not idiotic. And it is still controlled by the conservatives, and they will do the right thing in the end.
So proceed at your own peril. Proceed at your own peril, lower court judges and Democrats. You will rue the day in the end.