At a press conference Tuesday, House Speaker Mike Johnson outlined strategies for combating federal judges, most of them appointed by Democrat presidents, who have overruled or enjoined many of President Donald Trump’s executive orders.
Johnson, R-La., indicated a hesitancy to impeach federal judges, but expressed openness to laws limiting judges’ authority, as well as requiring judges to testify before Congress.
Johnson’s hesitancy to support a number of impeachment of articles comes at a time when he’s busy negotiating with Senate Republicans over the budget reconciliation process.
Impeaching a federal judge would require a simple majority in the House of Representatives to pass, but then a two-thirds supermajority in the Senate in order to remove an impeached judge from office—a long-shot scenario given Republicans’ narrow majorities in both houses of…
