DOJ, House Target ‘Injunction Abuse’ by Federal Judges
U.S. Attorney General JEFF SESSIONS and lawmakers are targeting the growing problem of unelected federal judges taking it upon themselves to veto presidential actions by issuing nationwide injunctions that reach far beyond the confines of a particular case.
Sessions has released a new directive to federal prosecutors asking them to try to curb these so-called “non-party” injunctions that allow judges to function as lawmakers.
At the same time, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) is promoting the proposed Injunctive Authority Clarification Act of 2018, in an effort to restore the traditional understanding that a federal court’s injunctive power extends only to the protection of the parties before it. Goodlatte’s committee approved the reform bill last week.
Conservatives have long complained that left-leaning judges use their powers to advance left-wing policies after Democrats lose at the ballot box. Thus, Democratic Party policies still end up getting enacted even when they are rejected by the voters. Nationwide injunctions issued by politicized judges are especially problematic because they allow one judge to bring federal government operations to a halt.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/republicans-offer-a-cure-for-injunction-abuse_2662772.html
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