This tactic, where the government would encourage a leftist group to challenge a proposed rule and then cave in a settlement giving the leftist things that could never have gotten through rule making, was perfected under Obama and Holder and was the mainstay of the Obama EPA. The EPA would propose a semi reasonable rule and then surreptitiously invite the Sierra Club or some similar group to file a lawsuit and then low and behold the EPA would enter into a binding settlement giving away the store and putting in place a rule that could never have gotten through proper rule making.

The reason I bring this up is because in our state the Board of Elections tried a similar tactic. The board is three to two Dems. The three Dems agreed to a settlement with a DNC group that would have allowed a complete rewrite of duly passed state election laws. The two Republicans resigned but fortunately the court did not accept the settlement and raised serious questions about how this non elected board could rewrite state law. Bravo.

This entire fraud of using bogus and disingenuous and fraudulent settlement agreements to accomplish what couldn’t be accomplished legally must be stopped and the best way to do it is to re-elect Trump and appoint more originalist judges.