“Scholars have not found a single example of any judge issuing this type of extreme remedy in the first 175 years of the Republic,” he said. “But President Trump has been hit with 22 in just over one year in office — on issues like DACA, the travel order, sanctuary cities, and the service of transgender people in the military.”Attorney General Jeff Sessions condemned federal judges Saturday for issuing nationwide injunctions that have blocked parts of President Trump’s agenda from moving forward, including his rescission of an Obama-era immigration program and his travel ban.
“In truth, this is a question of raw power, of who gets to decide the policy questions facing America: our elected representatives, our elected president, or unelected life-time appointed federal judges,” Sessions said during a speech at the Federalist Society’s National Student Symposium. “Today, in effect, single district court judges are going beyond proper adjudicative bounds and making themselves super-legislators for the entire United States.”
Yeah, that's all fine and dandy. The real question is WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT, OTHER THAN BITCH AND COMPLAIN?!? We have the means at our disposal via the Constitution. Congress also has the power to declare a number of subjects - like immigration - completely off limits to the courts. Why aren't they exercising this power? Then there's the ability to impeach, don't hold your breath on that one either.
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