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WATCH: Congressional Witness Exposes How Rogue Judges Are Allegedly Acting Unconstitutionally
American Tribune ^ | April 02, 2025 | Adam Stanton

Posted on 04/02/2025 5:06:56 PM PDT by Red Badger

Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) battered a DOJ spokesman from pillar to post in a contentious House Judiciary Hearing focused on whether federal judges could block President Trump’s actions via universal injunctions. The courageous senator pointed out the vast web of liberal judges who are abusing the Constitution to undercut President Trump’s authority.

For context, this hearing was held in the run-up to an upcoming Senate Judiciary Committee hearing titled “Rule by District Judges II,” which will be held on April 2, 2025, and is designed to investigate federal judges who have halted Trump’s executive orders with an unprecedented 87 universal injunctions.

Kicking off the exchange, he asked the hapless DOJ official a series of questions. He queried, “A universal injunction is what we call an order from a court enjoining the government in a way that goes beyond the parties to the case but applies nationwide, or in some cases universally, to enjoin the government. Is it sometimes referred to as a nationwide injunction?”

When the DOJ lackey replied in the affirmative, the senator asked about the legal backing for this maneuver. He added, “What’s the statutory basis for a federal judge issuing an order that affects people other than the parties before the court?”

After the spokesman replied that there was no legal basis, Kennedy pivoted to the Supreme Court. The senator said, “What’s the United States Supreme Court opinion, which interprets the Constitution in a way that allows a federal district court judge to do this… Explain to me how this works. How can a federal judge issue an order that affects everybody else, other than those in front of him or her? How is that possible?”

Then, when the DOJ official couldn’t answer the question, the Louisiana Republican explained how this incentivizes liberal activists to seek out federal judges to constrain the president. He added, “Not only does it encourage forum shopping, but also district shopping and filing multiple strategic lawsuits to pick, find one judge that will enjoin a single policy nationwide. If you have five lawsuits, a plaintiff, one of only five cases, must be successful.”

Watch Sen. Kennedy Here:

VIDEO AT LINK.......................

Building on that point, Kennedy explained how the lawfare against Trump is unprecedented in American history. He said, “Only about 27 universal injunctions were issued in the 20th century…but 86 of them were issued against President Trump in his first term…so far in President Trump’s second term, 30 universal injunctions have been issued against him.”

Concluding his remarks, Sen. Kennedy asked an explosive question for which the DOJ staffer had no answer. He posited, “The Universal injunction has become a weapon against the Trump administration… read article three, which defines judicial power. Where does it mention universal injunction?”

In the replies to this post, users applauded the dogged senator for his astute argument. One of the comments read, “Senator Kennedy makes an excellent point and it begs the question … Why hasn’t Congress stepped up here? Clearly, they have the ability and power to restrict judicial overreach. What are they waiting for?”


TOPICS: Government; History; Military/Veterans; Politics
KEYWORDS: article2; interference; judgewatch; judicialcoup; judicialmisconduct; judicialoverreach; kennedy; lawfare; noauthority; nojurisdiction; obstruction; senate; undermining; unlawfulorders

1 posted on 04/02/2025 5:06:56 PM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger
Liberals are satanic disciples ... Christ told US allll about those that sit in the seat of Moses .... Matthew 23 ... These punks will say ‘nobody is above the law’ ... what they are literally saying is they are the ‘law’ .... and the silly little republicans play in their satanic temples ... just as that big satanist georgie $$OROS ... the devil's own..
2 posted on 04/02/2025 5:12:53 PM PDT by Just mythoughts (Psalm 2. Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?)
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To: Red Badger

Hey Hey...
J.J.
How many judges did you impeach today?

ZERO


3 posted on 04/02/2025 5:58:55 PM PDT by joe fonebone (And the people said NO!! The end.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

4 posted on 04/02/2025 7:28:31 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: Red Badger
In the replies to this post, users applauded the dogged senator for his astute argument.

“Astute”? I dunno. I’ve been asking those questions for years, as have many others.

5 posted on 04/02/2025 8:47:55 PM PDT by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." — M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: Red Badger

This author is an idiot. This guy wasn’t just some DoJ Lackey / faceless peon.. It was the assistant AG nominee, and he agreed with all these questions. The point was getting this in the official record.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4308218/posts


6 posted on 04/02/2025 9:23:42 PM PDT by Svartalfiar (-)
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To: Red Badger

Bkmk


7 posted on 04/03/2025 3:52:38 AM PDT by sauropod (Make sure Satan has to climb over a lot of Scripture to get to you. John MacArthur Ne supra crepidam)
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