Posted on 03/18/2025 12:39:08 PM PDT by Lazamataz
Recently, Activist Judges (I call them 𝐏𝐨𝐩-𝐔𝐩 𝐉𝐮𝐝𝐠𝐞𝐬©) have been hamstringing President Trump in nearly every effort he has taken to try to right the country. From interfering in ending Birthright Citizenship, to any Federal Funding Freezes, to Federal Employee Buyouts, to Access to Treasury Records...even trying to TURN PLANES OF DEPORTED GANG MEMBERS AROUND IN MIDAIR... there is nothing these people will not attempt to block.
Trump’s 2025 term shows an extraordinary rate—46+ judicial interventions in under two months, which dwarfs Biden’s 5 TROs in four years, Obama’s 20 in eight, and Trump’s own first-term 40 in four. There is a 45x higher rate than Biden’s for February alone.
Trump’s current term stands out for its immediate and intense judicial resistance, outpacing all predecessors in speed and scale, driven by controversial immigration and governance reforms. Earlier administrations, even recent ones, faced fewer and slower challenges, highlighting a unique moment in executive-judicial dynamics.
Solutions have been offered such as ignoring the orders or impeaching the judges, neither of which strikes me as a true solution.
But there is an action that DOES strike me as a solution: Jurisdiction stripping.
In United States law, jurisdiction-stripping (also called court-stripping or curtailment-of-jurisdiction) is the limiting or reducing of a court's jurisdiction by Congress through its constitutional authority to determine the jurisdiction of federal courts and to exclude or remove federal cases from state courts.
I'm unclear if this would require only the House or the House and Senate. If it is the latter, then this would not work either.
Discuss.
Possibly. But a filibuster can be broken as soon as debate ends. Just let the Dems take the podium for a couple of weeks, 24/7. They’ll cave.
Yes, of course it would.
The obvious solution is several decisive impeachments, which requires judges to incur attorney’s fees and puts them at personal risk.
Barring that, a good start would be legislation to limit the effect of any federal court to the geographic boundaries of the court’s venue. E.g. a court in the Southern District of New York has no jurisdiction and its orders are without effect outside the SDNY. Once a case is appealed to a circuit court of appeals, the same principle holds so that the appellate court’s decisions affect only those states in that circuit. The only court with authority to issue nationwide decisions would be SCOTUS. This doesn’t eliminate the problem, but it seriously limits the damage.
Another suggestion is for congress to de-fund federal courts who repeatedly facilitate lawfare or exceed their jurisdictional limitations. Just stop paying the electric bill and the rent.
I hate to say it, but the leftist judges are not always wrong when it comes to the Trump administration.
Oh really? Why don't you go f yourself.
I agree, scratch a commie find a crook. It took all of two days to find the Venezuelan gang supporter’s conflict of interest, I bet it would take a week of forensic audit to find his crimes. Maybe another week to see what his crooked family has been up to.
There’s always the nuclear option.
Well then, we’re hosed.
I guess the best we can hope for, for four years, is a pause in the destruction of the country.
Well, maybe not even that, if the fraud is ordered continued by more PopUp Judges.
Deny funding to lower federal courts used in any way to process or handle specified types of cases. Couldn’t this be done in budget reconciliation? This avoids a Senate filibuster?
That’s because you think foreign gang members who torture young girls are good for our country.
And then some horse’s ass of a judge will rule it unconstitutional and issue a TRO.
Would it require cloture in the Senate or simple majority?
Right now, democrats don’t care about bad optics; it’s defy, beat, resist, dilute, hamstring Trump at ANY cost. They are desperate, and no doubt that includes many Republican Congress members as well. And judges.
If filibustered, then cloture.
Oh, yeah! Because, otherwise there's nothing to keep the judges from getting the impression that they are free to remove or ignore part or parts of the U.S. Constitution they don't like or that forbid/interfere with some leftist dictatorial ruling they want to make.
/sarc
Whack A Mole Judges.
Use the gavel to respond.
Trump should just show each of these judges the file he has on them.
Redo of the Judiciary Act of 1802.
Restructure the jurisdictions to eliminate the whack job judges, expanding the jurisdictions of the good ones.
Has to go through the entire legislative process.
Do the Dems trick of attaching as a rider to “must pass” legislation. (This last CR would have been the perfect vehicle to do this)
The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behavior, and shall, at stated Times, receive for their Services, a Compensation, which shall not be diminished during their Continuance in Office.
By Congress, not by judges.
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