Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) has sent a letter to the House Appropriations Committee urging them to include language in upcoming funding bills to bring rogue judges to heel.
Jordan’s letter comes as the House Judiciary Committee holds hearings today on activist judges as well as judicial overreach and constitutional limits on the federal courts.
The letter condemns what it calls “a dangerous trend of district court judges issuing nationwide injunctions that disrupt the implementation of federal policies” and warns that such rulings, handed down by a single judge, “threaten the constitutional balance of power by overriding the popular will of the American people as embodied in Congress and the President.”
Reminding the Committee that the Congress’ power of of the purse is an important Constitutional check and asks that as the Committee considers appropriations for the federal judiciary that it will “consider appropriate language that would enhance judicial restraint and reaffirm democratic principles.”
#NEWS: @Jim_Jordan urges the House Appropriations Committee to include language in upcoming funding bills that would limit the ability of rogue judges to misuse nationwide injunctions. pic.twitter.com/lgOzOkVA5D
— House Judiciary GOP 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 (@JudiciaryGOP) April 1, 2025
In the letter, Jordan refers to the rise of nationwide injunctions and calls it “a relatively new and troubling departure from the traditionally restrained scope of judicial authority.”
When a single district court judge stops a law or policy across the entire nation, without fact-finding, Jordan warns that “it can undermine the federal policymaking process and erode the ability of popularly elected officials to serve their constituents.”
The letter goes on to describe how this practice puts immense power in the hands of individual judges, in ways that can exceed the “geographic and legal bounds of their jurisdiction.”
As an example, Jordan invokes the case of “a lone activist judge in San Francisco, California, enjoined the termination of probationary federal employees, obstructing the President’s policy of reducing the size of the federal bureaucracy to make it more efficient and responsive to Americans.”
— Rep. Jim Jordan (@Jim_Jordan) April 1, 2025
The letter to the Appropriations Committee comes as Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) yesterday introduced the Judicial Relief Clarification Act as a way of reining in activist judges who are issuing injunctions to hamper President Trump’s MAGA agenda.
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