Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) has announced that the Senate is working to solve the “judicial overreach” problem after more than four dozen rulings were issued to block various efforts from President Donald Trump.
Another day, another judge unilaterally deciding policy for the whole country. This time to benefit foreign gang members If the Supreme Court or Congress doesn’t fix, we’re headed towards a constitutional crisis. Senate Judiciary Cmte taking action
— Chuck Grassley (@ChuckGrassley) March 16, 2025
Since taking office in January, Trump has issued a myriad of executive orders and actions, a majority of which were immediately challenged by leftist organizations. These challenges have led to clearly biased Democrat judges blocking many of Trump’s orders, even though the judges’ actions are clearly unconstitutional.
In response to the judicial overreach, conservatives have demanded that these judges face consequences — and Sen. Chuck Grassley is now announcing that the Senate will be trying to fix the problem.
In a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, Grassley expressed his support for Trump’s memo ordering federal agencies to enforce the Federal Rule of Civil Procedure. This rule states that all federal courts must require any party seeking a preliminary injunction or temporary restraining order to give a financial guarantee — which, according to a press release from Grassley’s office, will allow the courts to deter “frivolous lawsuits” and ensuring “coverage for lost taxpayer dollars when injunctions are later deemed wrongly issued.”
FEDERAL RULES require courts to collect financial guarantees frm ppl seeking 2halt exec orders bc wrongful restrictions cost taxpayers BILLION$ However activist judges cont 2issue nationwide injunctions without required bonds Trump admin is right to demand courts comply w law
— Chuck Grassley (@ChuckGrassley) March 18, 2025
“Over the last few months, I have watched with concern as individual district judges have issued sweeping injunctions that reach far beyond the case or controversy before them. These orders are often issued as preliminary injunctions or temporary restraining orders on an expedited basis with limited hearings,” Grassley wrote in the letter.
“According to a 2023 Harvard Law Review study, there have been 96 nationwide injunctions spanning the four presidencies from 2001 to 2023, but 64 of them—2/3 of all nationwide injunctions over that time—targeted President Trump during his first four years in office,” the letter continued. “Nearly all of those orders were imposed by judges appointed by Democratic presidents, and 54 of the 64 orders were issued as preliminary injunctions or temporary restraining orders.”
The majority of these injunctions imposed by the Democrat judges are efforts to obstruct Trump’s plans to deport criminal illegal aliens. In one case, a lower court judge demanded that Trump make a plane full of violent illegal alien gang members turn around when it was already over international waters.
Trump has invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 as part of his effort to deport illegal alien gang members from Tren de Aragua and MS-13, two gangs that Trump has designated as terrorist organizations.
According to Breitbart News, “The left-wing American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Soros-linked Democracy Forward sued the Trump administration on behalf of five illegal aliens accused of being gang members to stop the deportations — though planes of nearly 300 gang members had already taken off for El Salvador.”
