Around 2 p.m. Saturday, top White House adviser Stephen Miller took to X to warn of a “growing movement of leftwing terrorism” that is “shielded by far-left Democrat judges.”

Mere hours later, President Donald Trump’s attempts to use the military on US soil to combat this supposed threat suffered their biggest blow to date.

But it didn’t come from a “Democrat judge”; it came from someone Trump himself had nominated in 2018, US District Judge Karin Immergut.

By the end of the weekend, Immergut had ruled against Trump twice. She did so both for the administration’s initial attempted National Guard deployment to Portland, Oregon, and then again after suggesting it had defied her initial order by attempting to send in California troops. She even floated the idea that Trump was effectively trying to illegally implement “martial law.”

It was a dizzying series of events. But it was an instructive one.

Despite the administration’s claims of what Miller has labeled a left-wing “legal insurrection,” the list of judges ruling against the president includes a fast-growing number of Republican- and even Trump-appointed ones.

To date, GOP-appointed judges have ruled against the administration in more than a dozen high-profile cases. And their ranks include at least eight Trump-appointed judges.

They’ve also often used strong language that suggested Trump and his administration were blatantly violating the law.

The rhetoric around these cases is getting increasingly ugly, with some Trump allies taking Miller