House GOP advance bill which will halt rogue judges from pausing Trumps executive orders

WASHINGTON — House Republicans forced a bill through committee Tuesday that would limit the reach of so-called “rogue” judges who have paused some of President Trump’s executive orders from taking effect — including his invocation of an 18th century law to deport vicious Venezuelan gang members.The GOP-led House Rules Committee voted 9-4 along party lines to send the No Rogue Rulings Act, which would do away with nationwide injunctions unless they apply to specific parties bringing a complaint, to the floor of the lower chamber for a full House vote on Wednesday.A senior GOP aide said the measure is headed for approval, but it was unlikely the Senate will take it up.Sens.

Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) have already introduced their own bills to curtail lower courts’ authority.Federal judges have slapped Trump with at least 15 sweeping injunctions since he returned to the White House, including pausing the president’s orders to eliminate Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) programs, end birthright citizenship and bar transgender Americans from serving in the military.As members of the Rules panel were deliberating Monday night, a California district judge issued another nationwide injunction keeping in place a Biden-era program that granted up to 350,000 Venezuelan migrants Temporary Protected Status to live and work in the US.Rep.Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) told The Post last week when introducing the measure, which was co-sponsored by New York Republican Reps.

Claudia Tenney, Nick Langworthy and Nick LaLota, that it was “a constitutional solution to a national problem.”“Time and again, solitary judges have usurped congressional intent and confronted President Trump, rather than dispassionately interpreted the law,” Issa said.Grassley, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, authored a Wall Street Journal op-ed on Sunday announcing similar legislation to reign in the “abuse of temporary restraining orders and nationwide in...