by Tom G. K. Swift, American Thinker:

What distinguishes the rule of law from the rule of men is that the former contains limiting principles, which sharply and fundamentally limit the ability of men to decide the law as they see fit. Limiting principles are what remove arbitrariness and caprice from the law.
The recent spate of nationwide injunctions and Temporary Restraining Orders (TROs) by district court judges against President Trump are strikingly devoid of either structural or doctrinal limiting principles, such as separation of powers (or a conception of it having any real bite) and the political-questions doctrine — the former being, along with federalism, the most important structural limiting principle in American law. The judiciary ought to bend over backwards to respect limiting principles, notably those structural ones which are implied by our Constitution and our republican form of government — not least because the power of judicial review is less implied by the Constitution than are the basic limiting principles of our governmental system, which, to repeat, are forms of a principle that is fundamental to the very existence of the rule of law.