Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) announced on March 20 that he will put forward legislation to curtail district court judges’ ability to block President Donald Trump’s policies nationwide.
“District Court judges have issued record numbers of national injunctions against the Trump administration—a dramatic abuse of judicial authority,” Hawley wrote on the X platform. “I will introduce legislation to stop this abuse for good.”
The senator did not provide further details about the legislation he intends to introduce.
The Trump administration is currently facing a barrage of more than 100 lawsuits challenging the president’s executive orders. In dozens of those cases, district courts have blocked the implementation of various policies nationwide, including National Institutes of Health grant funding cuts, a wider federal funding freeze, a ban on people who identify as transgender joining the military, and new restrictions on birthright citizenship, among others.
Typically, judges will tailor orders temporarily blocking the enforcement of a challenged law or policy to apply solely to the parties in the lawsuit. However, acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris noted in a March 13 filing with the Supreme Court that nationwide orders had reached “epidemic proportions” since the start of the new Trump administration. […]
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