Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) joined in celebrating the Supreme Court’s most recent decision by announcing soon-to-be-introduced legislation to stop another “activist judge.”
The court’s ruling in Trump v. J. G. G. found that because deportees were “confined in Texas,” it was “improper” for Judge James Boasberg of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to issue a ruling prohibiting deportation flights while he oversees a case involving five immigrants with active deportation orders.
“It’s a threat to the rule of law and our entire system of justice, to equal justice, to the separation of powers and all of it,” Johnson said of Boasberg on Hannity Monday. “This week, Sean, we will be putting on the floor congressman Darrell Issa’s bill, the No Rogue Rulings Act. And what this is going to do is keep federal district court judges in their constitutional lane. No one single activist judge should be able to issue a nationwide injunction to stop the president’s policies. That’s not the way the framers intended this to work, and we are going to put them back in check.”
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The legislation mirrors three other bills proposed by Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Mike Lee (R-UT), and Josh Hawley (R-MO).
As of this month, the Trump administration had received two-thirds of all universal injunctions issued over the past 25 years. While Trump is only halfway to his 100-day mark, judges have already handed down 15 more injunctions. Meanwhile, former President Joe Biden had only 14 during his entire presidency.