First on FOX: President Trump has expressed interest in the House GOP bill that would stop federal judges from issuing national injunctions, two sources familiar with the debate told Fox News Digital.
A top White House aide told senior Capitol Hill staff this week that the president wanted this, sources said. They said the White House felt that time was the essence of the issue and that Trump wanted Congress to move quickly.
This comes after judges from various US district courts issued nationwide orders that have at least temporarily blocked Trump's executive orders.
The bill by Rep. Darrell Issa would most likely ban Trump's policies from blocking them nationwide if they pass Congress and signed the law.
President Trump's administration is fighting over dozens of injunctions (via Getty Images via Valerie Pulsch/Bloomberg/District of Columbia/US District Court for Senator Durbin YouTube/bill Pugliano
Fox News Digital contacted Issa's office for confirmation, but did not receive a reply by the time of publication.
White House officials told Fox News Digital that they will not be ahead of the president on legislative issues.
However, the idea appeared to gain traction at the higher level of the White House. Deputy Chief of Staff Trump, Stephen Miller, complained twice to X on Thursday. Although federal district judges have the capacity to influence national policy, he did not particularly mention Issa's bill.
“Five Supreme Court judiciary is required to issue a judgment that affects the nation-wide. However, lonely district court judges assume the power to unilaterally direct the policies of the entire government's administrative division,” Miller posted.
He later posted again. “A single Marxist judge in San Francisco has the same enforcement power as the commander elected by the whole nation under any theory of the constitution. No such theory exists. It is simply a naked judicial tyranny.”
Issa's law states that “notwithstanding the provisions of other laws, the US District Court shall not issue an order of injunctive orders except in such orders that apply solely to limit the parties' actions, as to a party seeking injunctive relief from such district court.”
The bill advanced through the House Judiciary Committee earlier this month. “We think it's good. We handed it to the committee. We're going to give it to the floor of our house and try to get the process to move around.”
Rep. Darrell Issa introduced the bill last month (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
Jordan told Fox News Digital last month that Issa's bill “makes sense,” and the committee said it was “trying to move that bill pretty quickly.”
Fox News Digital reached out to the House Judiciary Committee to comment on Trump's support of Issa's bill, but did not respond by reporting time.
But that lies in some disagreement among Congressional Republicans about how they listen to Trump's call to deal with “activist” judges.
Rep. Brandon Gill of R-Texas recently introduced a resolution to fire each US District Judge James Boasberg.
Gill claimed Boasberg abused his powers by doing so, and told Fox News Digital this week he hopes the resolution goes through the usual committee process.
Jordan told several outlets it could potentially hold hearings on Gill's resolution, a traditional step in the investigation process for each.
Trump posted on Truth Social earlier this week, with Boasberg as well hoping for each.
But told multiple sources that the House GOP leader was more wary of the bluff each route given the virtual assurance that Democrats who need such a move would not pass the Senate.
“This is another intense whipping process for something that doesn't move at all in the Senate,” said one of the GOP aides. “I think the White House is trying to find something easier.”
Chief of Staff for White House Policy Stephen Miller argued that district judges should not collect national injunctions (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc.)
Speaker Mike Johnson's office told Fox News Digital that he was looking at all the options available when he called for comment on House Republican Road on Thursday morning.
“Activist judges with a political agenda pose a serious threat to the rule of law, equal justice and separation of power. The Chairman looks forward to working with the Judiciary Committee to consider all the options available under this emergency,” a spokesman for R-LA said.
Fox News Digital also contacted the Senate Judiciary Committee on whether to undertake the law.
Andrew Mark Miller of Fox News Digital contributed to this report
