Daily Business Report: Tuesday, June 3, 2025
OPINION: Who Really Are the Lawless and the Dictatorial?
By Victor David Hanson | Blade of Perseus
The left is in its usual sanctimonious but schizophrenic mood.
The media claims daily that the Trump administration has usurped power. It is supposedly destroying democracy. It tramples on the rule of law and thus has created a virtual dictatorship.
Yet at the same time, Democrats high-five the most recent district court judge who has put a stop to the current Trump executive orders—which the Trump administration abides by as it files appeals.
There are two clear conclusions from the flurry of the lower-court liberal justices’ orders: 1) Trump has obeyed their record number of interventions as the appeals go forward; and 2) rarely in the history of the republic has a pool of some 300-400 left-wing district judges exercised such nationwide control over the executive branch and indeed the entire nation.
Big LA-SD Water Settlement Reached
By Scott Lewis| Voice of San Diego
The San Diego County Water Authority and Metropolitan Water District are set to announce a historic settlement of decades of legal disputes following the 2003 deal to purchase water from Imperial Valley farmers.
The disputes are insanely complex and they have cost San Diego ratepayers an estimated $20 million in legal fees. But they basically boil down how much Metropolitan charges San Diego to transfer water San Diego purchased from the Imperial Irrigation District, or IID. The Water Authority agreed to purchase water for several decades from IID. It also invested heavily in lining the canals that bring water from the Colorado River, saving significant amounts of water that had been lost to seepage.
Much of the saved water is San Diego’s for many decades as well. But Metropolitan brings the water to San Diego and its fluctuating costs to do that led to many years of legal battles.
America is Drowning in Laws
By Maureen Steele | California Globe
There was a time in this country when Americans knew the law. It was printed on four pages, handed out with reverence, and taught in every schoolhouse across the land. It was called the Constitution of the United States. It was meant to be the supreme law of the land—clear, concise, and divinely inspired.
But fast forward 250 years, and we are now drowning in a legal swamp so vast and bloated that not even the government knows how many laws we’re supposed to follow. That’s not liberty. That’s bureaucratic tyranny enforced by cowards in black robes and traitors with law degrees.
How many laws exist in America? No one can say for certain—not even Congress. Federal statutory laws, the ones actually passed by our elected representatives, number in the tens of thousands. But that’s just the beginning. Federal regulations created by unelected agencies exceed one million individual rules buried across more than 180,000 pages of the Federal Register. The number of executive orders now exceeds 14,000, many of which are enforced like laws. State statutes across all 50 states likely top 500,000. And with over 89,000 local governments issuing their own ordinances, we’re looking at tens of millions more “laws,” “codes,” and “mandates.”
