How much authority should district judges have?

It seems that every time President Trump issues a controversial executive order, someone on the left finds a liberal district judge who stays the order.
And, not to single out liberal judges, conservative judges did the same to some of Obama's executive orders.
So, the question is the following. Should a district judges, who is appointed and not elected, have the authority to over rule a presidential order that affects the entire country? I realize that such stays are usually challenged and go up through the court system, and sometimes even end up at the supreme court, but that process takes months or even years.
Opinions, please.
Gun control laws make about as much sense as taking ex-lax to cure a cough.
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On the surface, it does indeed seem like the private telling the general that he can't order the charge. However, the simple fact is that folks in the legislative and executive are popularly elected, not necessarily educated in constitutional issues (sad but true) and subject to a lot of knee-jerk whims of their time. The judiciary is SUPPOSED to be the flag-waver that says "Ummm. . .slow down there, boys. There's some things you haven't thought through". That taking it all the way down to the lower levels of the judiciary is apparently within the rules is probably an extension of the wishes of those founding fathers who felt that the body that governs best is the body that governs least.
Frustrating if it's your side getting held up, but NOBODY being allowed to move 100% unilaterally ain't a bad thing. Plenty of examples for why that is in the 20th Century. At least that way there's some deliberation and consensus before the pogroms start.
"Nothing is safe from stupid." - Zee
I left out the "If" at the beginning of my post...
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― Douglas Adams
I have participated in a couple of seminars that paired up a group of technical writers with "educators", discussing the writing of automotive service manuals. At the time, they were being written at 8th. grade level, and there was a push to simplify the language for the benefit of some service department technicians. At the end of the study, we discovered that to adequately present the necessary details for servicing computerized vehicles, the manuals actually needed to be written at the junior college level! I was one of a very few participants in the discussions with experience in both the education system and the automotive service industry. Most of the so-called teachers didn't have a clue about auto mechanics!