House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) is pushing appropriators to leverage upcoming funding legislation to put restraints on federal judges who have issued nationwide injunctions against President Donald Trump’s policies. With a letter dated March 31, Jordan implored leaders on the Committee on Appropriations to use “Congress’s power of the purse” to crack down on …
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House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) is pushing appropriators to leverage upcoming funding legislation to put restraints on federal judges who have issued nationwide injunctions against President Donald Trump’s policies.
With a letter dated March 31, Jordan implored leaders on the Committee on Appropriations to use “Congress’s power of the purse” to crack down on what he described as the “abuse of nationwide injunctive authority” during the first 60 days of Trump’s second term and ensure “the federal judiciary can continue to operate effectively and responsibly with respect to its growing civil and criminal dockets.”
