Hill Republicans aim to rein in judges but divided on strategy

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Source: NPR

March 25, 2025 4:23 PM ET


Republicans on Capitol Hill are planning ways to push back at the federal judiciary over allegations that activist judges are unfairly targeting the Trump administration. But GOP members are divided about what to do, and their efforts to block action by the courts face significant political and legal hurdles.

President Trump's efforts to remake the shape and size of the federal government using Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency and his use of a war-era statute to deport a group of Venezuelans have been reviewed by the courts.

Some GOP lawmakers have filed articles of impeachment to remove judges and others are pushing legislation to bar district judges from issuing national injunctions following public pressure on social media from Trump and Musk to impeach or punish judges.

Democrats dismiss the effort as purely political and legally unsound since the series of court rulings GOP lawmakers are fighting come down to a a disagreement about the law, not high crimes or corruption on the part of judges.

Read more: https://www.npr.org/2025/03/25/nx-s1-5338955/republicans-judges-strategy

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1. OMG! Federal judges who follow caselaw based upon The Federal Constitution!

What Republicans want: Alternate precedents.

[BumRushDaShow]

2. If they somehow try to block "national injunctions" that will kill their judge-shopping to the 5th Circuit

They get so blinded by their hypocrisy that they miss the boomerang they throw that hits them in the head.



(and I know you want "no hypocrisy" )

[underpants]

3. Good point. This is a matter of WHAT vs. HOW

The Republicans are arguing that Trump (not the POTUS but Trump personally) should get to do WHAT he wants while the courts are correctly deciding on HOW it’s done.

Johnson, the little twerp that he is, floated the idea of getting rid of the level of district courts or specific ones. That would throw the already over loaded courts into more of a mess.

Also, his twerpness:

Johnson maintained that the Trump administration is facing what he called an "unusual" response from the courts and he endorsed Issa's bill. "It is a dangerous trend and it violates equal justice under law. That critical principle, it violates our system itself. It violates separation of powers. When a judge thinks that they can enjoin something that a president is doing, that the American people voted for, that is not what the founders intended."


This literally IS the separation of powers 🙄

[BumRushDaShow]

4. The one thing that the GOP loves doing

is pretzel-twisting themselves into an unsolvable knot.

They do this to "operate in the moment" and hope everything "blows over" until the next "moment".

[Buddyzbuddy]

5. I imagine security for some Federal judges might become scarce or non-existent.

[Martin68]

6. The problem for MAGAts is, the law and the constitution both support judges who rule against the Dump administration.

[AmericaUnderSiege]

7. "Rein in" judges. Okay, NPR. Way to bravely report the facts.

I suppose drug cartels also try to "rein in" judges.

[Karasu]

8. Every single one of them considering this is pissing on the burning remnants of the Constitution

and should be removed from office.