“Since President Trump’s inauguration, we have seen a dangerous trend of district court judges issuing nationwide injunctions that disrupt the implementation of federal policies. These sweeping rulings, often handed down by a single judge, threaten the constitutional balance of power by overriding the popular will of the American people as embodied in Congress and the President.”
“The Committee on the Judiciary has developed legislative reforms within our jurisdiction to address this misuse of judicial authority and to restore balance between the branches of the federal government. The Committee on Appropriations is likewise charged with an important Constitutional check: Congress’s power of the purse. As you develop appropriations for the federal judiciary, we respectfully urge you to consider appropriate language that would enhance judicial restraint and reaffirm democratic principles,” writes spandex-wearing grapple-freak Jim Jordan in a letter to House Appropriations Committee Chair Tom Cole and Financial Services/General Government Subcommittee Chair Dave Joyce, angling to get a non-spending matter tucked into the spending bill.