Posted on 05/09/2019 1:37:50 PM PDT by bitt
Vice President Mike Pence announced that the administration will look for opportunities to challenge nationwide injunctions before the Supreme Court.
Such orders have obstructed the Trump administration’s agenda in a number of areas.
Though such injunctions have angered Trump loyalists, conservative litigators employed them against former President Barack Obama.
The Trump administration is searching for an appropriate case in which to ask the Supreme Court to end nationwide injunctions, Vice President Mike Pence announced Wednesday in Washington at a Federalist Society conference.
Nationwide injunctions, in which federal trial judges bar the federal government from enforcing a law or carrying out a policy across the entire country, have beset President Donald Trump since he took office. District courts have blocked administration policy priorities on immigration, national security and health care.
“The Supreme Court of the United States must clarify that district judges can decide no more than the cases before them — and it’s imperative that we restore the historic tradition that district judges do not set policy for the whole nation,” Pence told the conservative lawyers group.
“In the days ahead, our administration will seek opportunities to put this question before the Supreme Court — to ensure that decisions affecting every American are made either by those elected to represent the American people or by the highest court in the land,” Pence added.
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Must happen, courts should never have been allowed this power which they created.
Return to USConstitution; or perish.
What you said!
Unfortunately, those elected to represent the American people, frequently ignore the people’s express wishes, and vote to satisfy their own political desires.
First hand, I called the office of my rep to express my wishes on an upcoming vote. I was told by his people that he intended to vote according to HIS wishes. So, I asked tje lady on the phone, does that mean he doesn’t vote according to voter wishes? And she affirmed that he votes what HE thinks is best.
Our elected reps aren’t supposed to be our rulers. They’re supposed to be our voice!
And that’s why the House is such a mess.
Hear! Hear!
This will be the end of their little game of making law by judges.
Exactly wrong. We have a republic, not a democracy.
“This will be the end of their little game of making law by judges.”
Yeah, afterwards, only the Supreme Court will be able to make up laws.
The Supreme Court should have intervened long ago to put a stop to the coup d'état.
It should intervene now--immediately--and put a stop to it and to the anti-Trump clown drama.
Unfortunately that guy in Hawaii will be out of a job.....
With a good originalist majority on SCOTUS, they won’t make laws.
That won’t work. Roberts will just claim there’s no such thing as a biased judge and dismiss the whole thing.
I think this falls on the white house failure to address this the very first time when the district judge intervened in the travel ban. Thats when it should have been nipped. The President should have said the district court has zero authority over who can come into the country and this ruling will be ignored. He should have enforced the original ban and immediately after the ruling expanded the ban for the single purpose of enforcing the point. District judges do not run this country. we dont need a president if we are going to allow these black robs make all the decisions.
This is long overdue. Why should one left-leaning judge be able to invoke his will on the entire country without any rebuttle?
“This judicial obstruction is unprecedented. Studies show that there is not a single example of a nationwide injunction in the first 175 years of our country.”
But the Supreme Court should right now put a stop to this nullify-the-2016-Presidential-Election charade.
. They can’t which is why this was a major mistake to comply with the very first one. Once the dems saw this worked the first time then they went straight to the court with anything they want to stop. They even went to court and forced the white house to let an asshat cnn reporter back in the presidential press briefing. What a joke! Allowing that first injunction to over rule Presidential powers was a MAJOR screw up by the Trump white house.
To this citizen of a Constitutional Monarchy (Canada); what PrairieLady2 said seems perfectly reasonable. OTOH, I’m struggling to understand what you said, in response. It seems almost like a non-sequitur. Why do you think representative democracy not compatible with a republic?
Canada’s Head of State is Queen Elizabeth II; but, we operate as a representative democracy — our elected Prime Minister is Head of Government. If we replaced the monarchy, with an elected Head of State, we’d be a republic. A constitutional democratic republic, like, e.g., India is today.
Trump had to get a solid SCOTUS first. Now he got Gorusch or whatever his name is, and Kavanaugh. NOW Trump can do this. It would have been a very bad idea to get this issue to SCOTUS without a majority of sane and decent justices who value the Constitution.
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