We’ve all been witness to the last year of historic lawfare against President Trump. From blue state to blue state, coast-to-coast, there’s been a nonstop campaign by liberal activists and dark-money groups to thwart the president’s agenda. 

The ferocity of the campaign has been relentless.

Every executive order, every step made by federal agencies to implement the president’s agenda and make life easier for everyday Americans, even acts of Congress (such as the defunding of Planned Parenthood) has been met with lawsuits, injunctions and other legal salvos. 

And the left has had a decent go of it, at least in the cases that have yet to get to the U.S. Supreme Court:

• When President Trump cut funding for USAID, courts released it.
• When President Trump sent pink slips to the Deep State, courts ordered the employees back onto the payroll.
• And when President Trump ended what was supposed to be “temporary” immigration status for distinct groups who otherwise weren’t here legally, there was a court to quickly step in and issue an injunction, stopping the president from carrying out the will of the voters.

Thank goodness for the work President Trump put in to appoint strong justices to the Supreme Court in his first term and to fill the federal appeals courts along the way.

That work is bearing fruit now. At least with respect to the president and his executive powers, the Supreme Court and appeals courts have mostly stepped in to bring sanity and the rule of law to bear with respect to the lawfare being waged by the left. 

But the left has shown no signs of stopping. It is no exaggeration to say the campaign of lawfare against the president has been a defining aspect of President Trump’s second term so far. 

It’s also now clear that, having lost at the ballot box in 2024, the left has settled on the courtroom as a key way to win their ideological battles in the Trump Era, as they sit in the political wilderness in so many ways, staring down three more years of President Trump carrying out the agenda the American people endorsed overwhelmingly in the last federal election.    

If anything, the first year of the Trump administration has taught the left that lawfare works at least some of the time, which is more than they can say for their strategy in Congress. 

Thanks to these lessons, and the long line of electoral losses they’ve taken in states such as Missouri, the left is now facing up to a reality where its best possible path to gaining control over policy is through the courtroom, even when it isn’t busy suing the president and his administration.  

Far-left activists, dark money groups and trial lawyers have built a web of cases that push their ideology on everything from guns to climate change through state court lawsuits.

The examples are stark.

Trial lawyers and activists have teamed up to bring sweeping lawsuits seeking de facto carbon taxes. The same alliance has also tried to block ordinary citizens from exercising their Second Amendment rights through nuisance claims. And they have even forced corporations to adopt diversity policies that shareholders never approved and that run contrary to common sense and the law of the land. 

It’s time we step up and take a swing at this lawfare. We can’t let activists, dark money groups, and their trial lawyer allies hijack our legal system to stop conservative wins and force unpopular policies on voters.

Congress may not have the wherewithal to do something to stop the lawfare campaign of liberal activists and their trial-lawyer buddies. But we aren’t helpless here in the Show-Me State. 

It is time we step up and show Washington how it’s done. 

The left’s lawfare is out of hand and we can do something about it. The Legislature is in session. And Missouri is a leader. It is time for us to take the left’s lawfare campaign down a peg or two. 

We need to take away their legal avenues, strip their tools and cut off their money.

The trial lawyers and activists pushing this junk need to feel our wrath and recognize we are onto them. It’s the least our voters deserve. It’s the least we can do to lend a hand to the president and his allies in Washington.

And it’s the least we can do to help set the tone for the nation. The stakes are high and the time is now.