First on FOX: R-Iowa Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley will hold a hearing next week using a national order to narrow down the actions of the Trump administration.
“The abuse of the national injunction by district judges has stepped into the administrative department and raised serious questions regarding the appropriate jurisdiction of lower courts,” Grassley said in an exclusive statement from Fox News Digital.
“The courts and administrative agencies are on unsustainable conflict courses, so Congress must intervene and clarify,” he explained. “Our hearings explore legislative solutions with a balancing of power.”
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Senate Attorney General Speaker Grassley will hold consecutive hearings with the House next week to see a judge coordinating President Trump's agenda. (Reuters)
The hearing is scheduled to take place on April 2nd, one day after the House hearing.
“We plan to start hearings on this broad subject next Tuesday,” House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan told “Fox & Friends” Wednesday morning.
It is entitled “Rule II by District Judges: Exploring Legislative Solutions to the Bipartisan Issues of Universal Injunctions.”
Specifically, the committee will consider both constitutional and policy issues raised by judges issuing national injunctions, particularly the increase brought on by the Trump administration. We will further explore the harm that has resulted in a wide range of orders to each branch of the government, and what solutions are available at the Congress table.
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Donald Trump, Judge James Boasberg, Amir Ali, Anna Reyes (via Getty Images/Bloomberg District of Columbia/YouTube for Senatordurbin via Getty Images/Bill Pugliano)
The Republican majority on the Senate Judiciary Committee invited witnesses Samuel Bray and Jesse Panuccio to testify at the hearing.
Bray is a professor of law at Notre Dame John N. Matthews and is an expert on national injunctions. He has already written extensively on this subject and testified. He specifically wrote a Harvard Law Review article entitled “Multiple Prime Ministers: Reforming National Injunctions.”
Panuccio is a partner of Boies Schiller Flexner, formerly acting assistant attorney general for the Department of Justice (DOJ), chair of the DOJ's Regulatory Reform Task Force and vice-chairman of the DOJ's Task Force on Market Integrity and Consumer Fraud. He also spent time as the general counsel for then-Governor of Florida, Rick Scott.
This is not the first time lawmakers have expressed concern about federal judges' ability to stop nationwide action on their trucks. Former committee chair Lindsey Graham, Rs.C. at the 2020 hearing. led by bipartisan senators at length.
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Grassley will chair a powerful committee. (Daniel Hoyer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Several Republicans have already introduced the bill in the House and Senate, with the aim of limiting federal judges' ability to remain in power. The president himself has already expressed interest in such measures, reported last week by Fox News Digital, and reported by R-Calif.
According to two sources familiar with the debate, a top White House aide told senior Capitol Hill staff last week that the president wants this. They also said the White House felt that time was very important when it came to judicial issues and that Trump wanted Congress to promote the issue.
The hearing was scheduled immediately next week, but there is no word on whether the law on the matter will be brought to the Senate floor.
Senate majority leader John Tune's office did not provide comment to Fox News Digital when asked if there were any policy ideas about injunctions or if he believed Congress needed to act.
When asked about the call from Fox News earlier this week to Judge Berkeley, Thune said Grassley was looking into the issue, saying, “At the end of the day there is a process, and there is an appeal process.
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Thune has not addressed any action against the judge. (Aldrago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Senate majority John Barrasso, R-Wyo in a floor speech Tuesday. “When a partisan, unelected district court judge tries to microcontrol the US president, it's not a judicial review. It's not a check and balance. It's purely partisan politics, and it's wrong.”
However, the second Republican did not seek any particular law on the subject.
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Critics of GOP's careful approach to federal judges who issue such a wide range of orders include R-Fla Governor Ron Desantis.
“Congress has the power to strip federal courts of jurisdiction to decide these cases in the first place,” the governor said in X earlier this month.
“The obstruction of President Trump's agenda by a 'Resistance' judge was predictable. Why isn't there a bill that takes jurisdiction at the start of this parliament? ” he asked.
