President Donald Trump is not only having to face Democrats who want to stand in the way of his agenda but activist judges who are stepping on his ability to exercise the power of the presidency over the Executive Branch.
It’s had some on the right calling for answers as to how to deal with the judges who want to tell the administration who they are allowed to deport and who even they can fire when it’s the president who controls the Executive Branch. Trump may win some of these issues on appeal, but in the meantime, Democrats are trying to slow things down by this delaying tactic.
Republicans are now fighting back. They’re planning a hearing next week on the issue.
Rep. August Pfluger, R-Texas, told Fox News Digital that in addition to the hearing, House GOP members are also considering a bill to address the issue.
“I think the administration’s doing the right thing by fighting it legally,” he said. “There’s a good bill that we’re considering. So, we’ll be looking at that next week.”
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., confirmed the GOP plans to take action, saying, “We’ll do everything that we can with our legislative toolkit to ensure that they are doing what’s right by the American people and then also following through on our constitutional obligations.”
“Right before President Trump took office, the Democrats actually knowingly made admissions that they were appointing obstructionist justices in order to undermine what the president’s agenda was,” Luna told Fox News Digital.
Luna said it was up to the administration to set foreign policy, for example, not judges.
Rep. Michael Rulli, R-Ohio, called the use of activist judges to override foreign policy “really scary.”
“As far as the low-lying judges, it’s a little bit scary to think that they could actually stop the progression of a federal movement where you have the executive branch which should be the final say as far as that,” he said.
“My party needs to be very methodical about how we fix it, and we have to codify law to make sure that we can prevent this from happening again,” he went on.
Rep. Troy Nehls (R-TX) and Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-WI) put it more succinctly. “Who the hell do they think they are?” Nehls said. Van Orden put it simply, “We’re coequal branches of government,” adding, “That guy [presumably Judge James Boasberg] is not king.”
