Congressional Republicans are hoping to turn the tide on legal setbacks to President Donald Trump’s executive actions with bills to weaken the federal judiciary.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) on Monday introduced a measure to prohibit district court judges from issuing nationwide injunctions, rulings he believes are unconstitutional and should apply only to a lawsuit’s individual parties involved.
He assailed the wave of “anti-democratic” injunctions against actions taken by the Trump administration and said federal judges have become the “favorite tool of those seeking to obstruct President Trump’s agenda.”
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“Individual district judges, who don’t even have authority over any of the other 92 district courts, are single-handedly vetoing policies the American people elected President Trump to implement,” Grassley said in remarks on the Senate
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