President Donald Trump's second term began with a flurry of executive actions to drastically reform the federal government and implement the agenda Trump promised during last year's campaign. But most of those actions and policies are now on hold, due to an equally aggressive strategy from the left that has used dozens of federal judges to block Trump's orders. More than 130 lawsuits challenging Trump actions were filed in the first 64 days of his second term, and more injunctions have already been issued against Trump this term than were issued in the entire presidencies of George W. Bush, Barack Obama, or Joe Biden. Some critics are calling this the "new Russia hoax," mirroring the strategy used by the Trump resistance during his first term.
Trump has blasted what he calls these "lunatic" judges essentially seizing the power of the presidency. While many observers are waiting on the U.S. Supreme Court to step in and check these lower courts, Republicans in Congress are taking matters into their own hands. "You have these judges issuing these nationwide injunctions at a rate we haven't ever seen before for any other president," says political analyst Katie Pavlich in a recent Fox News interview. "And you're actually seeing Congress now stepping up and saying we need legislation to rein in these judges, which is our Constitutional duty."
Both the House and Senate are holding hearings this week on legislation that would restrict the power of individual district judges to control policy for the entire country. "Our legislation would clarify that a district judge's purview is over their district and over the case in front of them," says Tennessee Sen. Marsha Blackburn on Fox News. "Therefore, if it's a case on immigration it applies to the immigrant in front of them, not to all immigrants."
"So we will push forward with legislation to bring that clarity," she continues. "A federal district judge does not have the authority to issue nationwide injunctions."
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