Mike Johnson: No Rogue Rulings Act Will Keep District Court Judges ‘Within their Constitutional Lane’

The U.S. House of Representatives will vote today on a bill, backed by President Trump, to limit the ability of federal district court judges to block the president’s agenda on a national scale.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) expressed support for Rep. Darrell Issa’s No Rogue Rulings Act (NORRA) which is intended to keep district court judges within their Constitutional lane.

Democrats insist there is a constitutional crisis just because they don’t like President Trump’s policies.

The actual crisis is activist judges trying to single-handedly stop the President’s agenda.

This week, the House will vote on @repdarrellissa’s No Rogue Rulings Act to… pic.twitter.com/pSun16wyLQ

— Speaker Mike Johnson (@SpeakerJohnson) April 7, 2025

Rep. Darrell Issa’s (R-CA) bill would limit the more than 670 district court judges from issuing rulings that have nationwide effect and instead require them to tailor their rulings to the specific parties named in a particular lawsuit.

Though the NORRA has broad support from GOP leadership and House Republicans, Issa told Fox News Digital that he was not optimistic that it would get Democratic support.

Last week Issa stated, “Sadly, I’m not sure that it will. It obviously should. The administration can win 15 times, and they lose once—they get an injunction. That’s not the way it’s supposed to be.”

Issa noted that the problem of district judges overstepping their authority is not purely a Republican issue.

In a December filing to the U.S. Supreme Court over a district judge preventing the Biden administration from enforcing a financial crimes law, former Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar argued that, “Universal injunctions exert substantial pressure on this court’s emergency docket, and they visit substantial disruption on the execution of the laws.”

If NORRA passes the procedural vote today, a final bill will likely be debated and voted on later today.

However, before reaching the president’s desk, the measure will first have to secure at least 60 votes in order to pass in the Senate.

That threshold will require that some Democrats vote in support of NORRA.