Senators Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and D-Minn. Senator Amy Klobuchar of the group was sparred during a hearing on a national federal judge's order against the Trump administration, with Democrats dismissing his colleagues' “law” claims.
“I understand that this is the second stage of the law,” Cruz said during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, “District Judge II: Exploring legislative solutions to the bipartisan issue of universal injunctions.”
“They are looking for individual radical judges as their efforts to indict President Trump and stop voters from re-election him have failed,” the Texas Republican argued.
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Cruz asked why the lawsuit was not filed in the Red District. (AP)
Klobuchar disputed this, telling Cruz that the injunction from a federal judge was “unconstitutional.”
“Why would you be appointed as a Trump-appointed judge?” The Minnesota Democrat began before being interrupted by Cruz.
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Klobuchar accused Cruz of lying. (Nathan Howard/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“Why don't you submit it to the Red District?” Cruz asked. “Why are Democrat lawyers looking for the left-wing Blueswing district?”
Klobuchar argued that the surge in national injunctions from district judges who stopped the Trump administration's actions was not because “these judges are bent or crazy or evil.” She then warned that making such claims could incite threats and violence against them.
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Donald Trump, Judge James Boasberg, Amir Ali, Anna Reyes (Valerie Press/Bloomberg via Getty Images; US District Court for the District of Columbia, Senator Durbin via YouTube, and Bill Pugliano via Getty Images)
Cruz has criticized Democrats in recent years for not fully condemning the threat to justice of the conservative Supreme Court. But Klobuchar called it a lie, explaining, “We got together and got more funds for the judges and changed things so that they had more protection.”
Several Democrats criticized “judge shopping” during the hearing, but they cautioned not to get backwards to end the national injunction.
“It is impossible to separate the hearing from President Trump's record while in office,” said ranking member Dick Durbin, D-Ill.
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Durbin argued that the injunction was evidence that Trump's actions were unconstitutional. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
But as Democrats have proposed in the past, the shopping for Judge Ending would not address this issue entirely, said Jesse Panuccio, partner of Notre Dame Samuel Bray law professor John N. Matthews and Boys Schiller Flexner. He was previously the acting deputy attorney general of the Department of Justice (DOJ), chairman of the DOJ's Regulatory Reform Task Force and vice-chairman of the DOJ's Task Force on Market Integrity and Consumer Fraud.
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“I think the incentive for forum shopping is to think we can get judges who can become rulers around the country. So we'll solve the problem of judges reaching excessively.”
