House GOP moves to rein in judge who paused Trumps Tren de Aragua deportations

WASHINGTON — House Republicans are turning up the heat on US District Court Judge James Boasberg, scheduling hearings to investigate him and introducing legislation to claw back his power as he continues to block deportations of alleged Tren de Aragua members to Central America.GOP lawmakers are eyeing two major bills — one to impeach Boasberg, the chief judge of the DC District Court, and another to restrict the use of nationwide injunctions.In tandem with that legislation, House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) is planning to hold a hearing next week.“When you look at Judge Boasberg, it starts to look like this is getting totally political from this guy,” Jordan told Fox News’ “America’s Newsroom” Monday.“You got this judge [making] this crazy decision — ‘Turn the plane around, bring the bad guys back to America‘ — That makes no sense,” he added.“It really starts to look like Judge Boasberg is operating purely political[ly] against the president.”The No Rogue Rulings Act, introduced by Rep.

Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), would bar district courts from issuing an “order providing for injunctive relief,” unless it applies only to specific parties who bring a case.Over the last two decades, federal district courts have lodged dozens of nationwide injunctions against presidential administrations, restricting the government from certain types of action instead of just covering the parties involved in litigation.There are at least 15 nationwide injunctions currently in place against the Trump administration.That’s significantly higher than the six against former President George W.

Bush, 12 against former President Barack Obama and 14 against former President Joe Biden during their entire presidencies, according to a tally by Harvard Law Review.Trump’s team has appealed one injunction, against his executive order eliminating birthright citizenship, to the US Supreme Court — where conservative justices such as Samuel Alito an...