Democrats and Republicans clashed repeatedly Tuesday during a lengthy hearing about what the GOP calls an “activist judge” blocking President Donald Trump's agenda.
The House Judiciary Committee's Constitutional and Court Subcommittee held a joint hearing in preparation for a House-wide vote on laws that would limit the ability of district judges to issue national injunctions. But the bill is now stagnant after paralyzing the floor of the house after an unrelated fight over proxy voting.
During the hearing, Democrats repeatedly pressed Republicans on the issue of judicial bullet each – something driven by conservatives shows little desire for pursuit.
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Left: US Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) will be attending the third day of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on July 17, 2024. Right: President Donald Trump will speak at the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, DC on March 3, 2025. (Getty Images)
“People who I have never heard of may be in Congress, they may have introduced a fiat each resolution, and he is not here,” Rep. D-Calif said of the fiat each resolution targeting U.S. District Judge James Boasberg by R-Texas.
“He wasn't here for at least the last hour and all the witnesses here agree that we shouldn't really be a Judge each. I've never heard of one colleague on the other side that we should have a Judge each.”
Rep. Darrell Issa, of R-Calif, co-chaired the hearing alongside R-Texas Rep. Chip Roy, asked Swalwell to spend time, but the California Democrat refused.
“I don't think they'll talk about it with the bill because they offered similar bills, and the reason they wanted a committee last October in the Biden administration was because they wanted exactly what we were off the committee today,” Issa told Fox News Digital about the Democratic tactics.
US Congressman Chip Roy, R-TX. speaks to the media after the House of Representatives failed to pass a government funding bill at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. on December 19, 2024. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
Rep. Jared Moskowitz of D-fla compared the efforts of conservative Judges to Judges for Judges on former President Joe Biden.
“I think we're pulling out the page. [House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer’s] Playbook, we're just doing fake bullet each,” Moskowitz told Fox News Digital.
However, Roy, who co-led with Issa, told Fox News Digital that he was “trying to make it clear that the administration is clearly acting politically to stop it.”
“It's pretty clear that my Democrat colleagues prefer to defend the rights of members of the MS-13 gang to be deported to be clearly illegally deported,” Roy said.
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US District Court Judge James Boasberg was hit by a resolution for each. (Getty)
But another member of the committee; R-Wis; Rep. Scott Fitzgerald said at least one goal is to “update the profile of the issue.”
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“The more we get a hearing like this, the more obvious it's going to set it on Secretary Roberts' plate, take action and try to control the court again,” he said.
R-La. It's not immediately clear when House Speaker Mike Johnson announced that house floor activities have been cancelled for the rest of this week, and it's not clear when Issa's bill will get votes.
