Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) announced on Thursday that he plans to introduce a bill to stop federal judges who have made rulings that have blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from taking certain actions.
“District Court judges have issued RECORD numbers of national injunctions against the Trump administration – a dramatic abuse of judicial authority. I will introduce legislation to stop this abuse for good,” Hawley said in a post on X.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt recently said Trump’s second term faced 15 injunctions in one month, a statistic that outpaces the number levied against the federal government during the first few years of the Biden administration.
Some judges have ordered elements of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) effort led by Elon Musk to cease. Another one halted Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act to deport…
