GOP Bills to Limit Judicial Authority Are Coming

Republicans are considering several bills to rein in the out-of-control judges who now run the US government.

On Tuesday, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) noted that Congress has power over the federal judiciary.

“We do have authority over the federal courts,” Johnson said in Tuesday’s press conference. “We can eliminate an entire district court. We do have power over funding over the courts and all these other things. But desperate times call for desperate measures, and Congress is going to act.”

Johnson isn’t looking to eliminate the courts, just limit the scope of their illicitly assumed authority.

Article III of the Constitution specifically vests judicial power in the Supreme Court and in “inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.” Congress determines the structure and funding of the district court system.

Meanwhile, Republicans are plotting other ways to respond to the judges amid the calls for impeachment. The House is set to vote next week on the No Rogue Rulings Act, a bill led by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) that would limit the power of the nation’s nearly 700 district judges to impose nationwide injunctions.

Johnson said that change would be “a dramatic improvement” of the federal court system, calling the historical increase in district judges issuing nationwide injunctions “out of the norm.”

“It is a dangerous trend and it violates justice under law, that critical principle. It violates our system itself. It violates the separation of powers when a judge thinks that they can enjoin something that a president is doing, that the American people voted for. That is not what the founders intended,” Johnson said. “So, there’s a natural tension between the branches of the government, and we’re working through that.”

Johnson said there could be more legislation coming to address Republican concerns with the judiciary.

The House Judiciary Committee is also set to hold a hearing next week to examine the issue of nationwide injunctions and other “abuses” of judicial authority.

They need to do less talking and engage in more action.

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