By Katherine Tinsley
4:00am PDT, Apr 6, 2025
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On Tuesday, April 1, the House Republicans forced a bill that would place limitations on "rogue" judges who put a pause on Donald Trump's executive orders.
The GOP-led House Rules Committee voted 9-4 to push the No Rogue Rulings Act, which would stop nationwide injunctions.
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Since beginning his second term, Donald Trump has been hit with 15 injunctions.
The president has signed executive orders to eliminate diversity programs, to end birthright citizenship and to bar transgender Americans from enlisting in the military.
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As the rules panel was meeting, a district judge in California issued a nationwide injunction reinstating the
Joe Biden-era program granting Venezuelan migrants protected status to live and seek employment in the U.S.
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Republican United States Representative
Darrell Issa discussed the move with the
New York Post, saying,
"Time and again, solitary judges have usurped congressional intent and confronted President [Donald] Trump, rather than dispassionately interpret the law."
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In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, Chuck Grassley called judges' response to Donald Trump's executive orders an "abuse of temporary restraining orders and nationwide injunctions."
"The obvious solution is to limit district courts to resolving the cases only between the parties before them," he wrote. "If the Supreme Court won't act to rein in the lower courts, Congress must."
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Democrat Jamie Raskin, who is the head Democrat on the House Judiciary panel, accused House Republicans of working with Donald Trump to "dismantle the power of the courts."
"He's engaged in terribly lawless and irresponsible violations of people's rights — whether that's trying to nullify the citizenship of millions of people by deleting the birthright citizenship clause or dismantling federally created, congressionally created agencies and departments," Raskin said.
