The 20percentt opposing the act consists of a bipartisan coalition of libertarian conservatives and civil libertarian liberals, who have proved more successful in blocking the administration's most draconian proposals than in persuading the administration to construct balanced alternatives.
Last week, Trump's attorney general, Jeff Sessions, took aim at Derrick Watson, the federal judge in Hawaii who blocked the administration's revised travel ban in March.
To many, this seemed less like "principled opposition," and more like a recipe for gridlock in Congress, by blocking the Obama administration in its efforts to conduct the business of governing our nation.
Last June, Justice Arthur F. Engoron, of State Supreme Court in Manhattan, blocked the administration's plan to expand street hail service beyond Manhattan.
Members of Congress stepped in to block the administration from limiting the amount of potatoes children could be served and to allow schools to continue to count tomato paste on a pizza as a serving of vegetables.
A federal judge in Texas blocked the administration from proceeding with Obama's plan to shield from deportation as many as 5 million people who entered the country without legal authorization or overstayed visas.
The announcement came months after the food industry won a vote in Congress to block the administration from carrying out an earlier proposal that would have reduced starchy foods like potatoes and prohibited schools from counting a small amount of tomato paste on a slice of pizza as a vegetable.
"Holding the Georgia seat could very well be the difference in blocking the Obama administration's most radical social policies," Mr. Andrews wrote.
In an open alliance, Senate Democrats and House Republicans from the farm belt have succeeded in blocking the Bush administration's effort to revamp farm policy.
A federal judge later issued a preliminary injunction blocking the Trump administration from stopping immigrant teenagers in federal custody from getting abortions.
