Senate Democrats unconvinced on GOP push to curtail injunctions
Source: Roll Call
Posted April 2, 2025 at 5:17pm
Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee showed no signs Wednesday they would back the Republican push to curtail the power of federal district judges to issue nationwide injunctions, a type of court order that has been used to hobble executive actions from the Trump administration.
Republican lawmakers are pursuing the issue in a multi-pronged approach. They had teed up a floor vote on legislation in the House, made a request to include language in fiscal 2026 funding bills and Senate Judiciary Chairman Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, introduced a new bill on the topic.
District court judges have paused Trump administration efforts to overhaul the federal government, end birthright citizenship and fire federal probationary employees, among other policies. At the hearing, Grassley referred to the court orders as “universal injunctions” and said the issue “has plagued and frustrated Democratic [and] Republican presidents alike.”
“Most of us in this room have at various times supported or opposed universal injunctions,” Grassley said. “My fellow Republicans and I sometimes like them when there’s a Democratic president, and my Democratic colleagues probably like them right now.” “We all have to agree to give up universal injunctions as a weapon against policies we disagree with,” Grassley said.
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