A House panel heard Tuesday from experts about curbing the ability of district court judges to impose nationwide injunctions, which have been a thorny problem for President Donald Trump’s agenda.
“This is not new, but it is not old. For 180 years of our nation, there were no such injunctions,” said Rep. Darrell Issa, the chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet, during the hearing.
“Only beginning in 1963 did district courts believe in relatively small amounts that they could do this without multiple plaintiffs from multiple circuits,” Issa, R-Calif., added. “From 2001 to 2023, the number grew to 96, but an incredible 64 of those occurred during only four years of President Trump, meaning more than half of all injunctions in this millennium, this century, was against President…
