Tiana Lowe Doescher calls on Congress to take power from district judges

Washington Examiner columnist Tiana Lowe Doescher called on Congress to take away the power to implement nationwide injunctions from district judges.

President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive moves have been resisted every step of the way by district judges, challenging his authority to enact his agenda. In a Friday appearance on Fox Business’s Evening Edit, Lowe Doescher bemoaned the ability of individual district court judges to bring the United States into “injunction dysfunction.”

“As Stephen Miller has said, in the Supreme Court, you need a majority of these five judges, whereas you could just have one district judge shut down everything? No more. Congress gave this power away, right? District judges do not have any power in the Constitution, so Congress needs to take it back,” she

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