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2025-03-27 Government Corruption
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House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan lays out sweeping agenda for judicial reform
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[JustTheNews] Republicans in Congress have zeroed in on federal judges unilaterally blocking key Trump executive orders on immigration and government reform. The Constitution gives Congress the right to delineate the authority of district courts.
| That's great, and no doubt it’ll all get passed in the House. But will any of it get through the Senate? |
As President Donald Trump faces stiff challenges from federal judges across the country, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, is laying out a sweeping agenda for judicial reform to rein in judges that he says are being overtly political.
In just under 65 days of President Trump’s second term, federal judges have issued at least 15 nationwide injunctions, where single judges on the district court level have attempted to block certain administration policies nationwide. Republicans have roundly decried the injunctions because of their sweeping nature and have accused some of the judges of being motivated by politics instead of sound legal arguments.
“[When] you have a judge whose behavior is so politically, so political against President Trump, you kind of got to start asking the question, really, is this just a bad judicial decision, or is this based on politics?” Jordan told the “Just the News, No Noise” TV show on Tuesday.
THREE REFORMS BEING PROPOSED
Jordan, who leads the House committee responsible for overseeing the federal law enforcement and court system, told Just the News that he is planning to address reforms to the judicial system in three ways: passing legislation to limit nationwide injunctions by individual federal judges; wielding Congress’s appropriations power to curtail judicial activism; and conducting hearings on judicial conduct.
“[There’s] three avenues that Congress has to deal with this situation. One is legislative, and we're already working on that. We've passed the bill out of committee two and a half weeks ago that the Speaker has indicated they're gonna put on the floor next week. But that bill says, when you have one of these federal district judges who issues an injunction, you know, some some judge in Timbuktu California issues an injunction, it should only apply to parties in the case and in that respective jurisdiction, it shouldn't have nationwide application. So we think that makes sense,” Jordan said.
The Judiciary Committee last week approved the “No Rogue Rulings Act of 2025” sponsored by Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif. That legislation would curtail federal judges from making nationwide injunctions in the cases before them, “except in the case of such an order that is applicable only to limit the actions of a party to the case before such district court with respect to the party seeking injunctive relief from such district court and non-parties represented by such a party acting in a representative capacity.”
The bill would provide a new pathway for injunctive relief in cases where three or more states challenge a federal law. In such a case, the challenge would be referred to a three-judge panel selected randomly which would be given the authority to issue the types of nationwide injunctions currently being used by individual federal judges.
The administration has so far faced dozens of lawsuits, mostly over Trump’s executive orders and the actions of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, resulting in injunctions—known as Temporary Restraining Orders—that freeze administration policies as the case is adjudicated. Most of the injunctions have come from the Democratic-friendly Maryland or DC courts, though their rulings currently apply nationwide, frustrating efforts by Trump to enact his agenda.
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