Washington Examiner columnist Tiana Lowe Doescher called on Congress to take away the power to implement nationwide injunctions from district judges.
President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive moves have been resisted every step of the way by district judges, challenging his authority to enact his agenda. In a Friday appearance on Fox Business’s Evening Edit, Lowe Doescher bemoaned the ability of individual district court judges to bring the United States into “injunction dysfunction.”
“As Stephen Miller has said, in the Supreme Court, you need a majority of these five judges, whereas you could just have one district judge shut down everything? No more. Congress gave this power away, right? District judges do not have any power in the Constitution, so Congress needs to take it back,” she said.
“Because they’re just not letting Trump go ahead with an agenda, and this is part of his agenda that is very popular with Democrats,” Lowe Doescher added, referring to Trump’s recent executive order to require voter ID for federal elections.
On Friday, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia struck down part of an executive order from Trump that required voter ID for federal elections. Lowe Doescher said Democrats’ opposition to the policy was just the latest of their recent propensity for unpopular positions, pointing to the measure’s high public support in polls.
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“This is a Clinton-appointed judge; this is not her first nationwide injunction of the Trump second term. She’s already tried to block DOGE access to Treasury, but in this case, she’s trying to stop the head of the executive branch, Donald Trump, the president, from having the Election Assistance Commission, a federal agency, an executive agency, execute a very common sense and popular way of requiring that if you’ve never voted in a federal election, just show us you’re a citizen,” she said.
“Democrats want to take the losing side of this battle. OK, explain that to the two-thirds of your own voters that support this,” Lowe Doescher added.