Republican chairman of the Mike Johnson house has given a pointed warning to judges throughout the country, because local courts have delayed the rollout of the political agenda of Donald Trump.
“We do have authority over the federal courts,” Johnson shared on Tuesday during a press conference. “We can eliminate an entire court,” he noticed.
'We have power over financing over the courts and all these other things. But desperate times require desperate measures, and the congress will act. '
His statement seemed to be a veiled memory, if not threatened, that the congress has aimed at district judges who have issued orders and statements against Trump's policy.
Although the Supreme Court is the highest judicial body in the country, district courts, which have issued national judgments that thwart the decisions of the White House, by the congress under supervision.
The White House is frustrated by the orders that impedes the immigration of Trump, Doge and other top priorities, calling the 78-year-old judges to get in the way of being removed.
“We can eliminate an entire court,” speaker Mike Johnson told reporters Tuesday
Speaker Mike Johnson (L) said reporters that the Congress has the authority about district courts that have stopped the policy of Donald Trump with judicial interventions
District judge James Boasberg, Chief Court of the American Court for the District of Columbia. Boasberg blocked a Trump surrounding to deport Venezuelan migrants
The president has called for judge James Boasberg of DC District Court to be dropped off to issue an order of the deportations of the government of Venezuelans under the Alien Enemies Act.
Trump has also rolled up against district judge John James McConnell Jr. After he had chosen the side of 22 states and the district of Columbia to restore the flow of federal subsidies and loans that the White House was froze when Dogs struck the expenses.
Republican legislators have already introduced articles of accusation against McConnell and another district judge based in Maryland, Theodore Chuang, who recently ruled that dismantling USAID is unconstitutional.
However, accusation is unlikely because the maneuver would require democratic support.
Although the speaker later clarified that he was not going to destroy a court, he said he wanted to remind people of the many authorities of the congress.
Article III of the Constitution states that the congress is to 'organize and determine' courts under the Supreme Court, which means that the legislators organize funds and the lower court structure.
Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, is currently investigating ways in which congress can rule in district judges.
Next week the committee will have a hearing to investigate Boasberg and the recent judgments of the other court.
President Trump at the Division I NCAA Wrestling Championship at the weekend
Trump during a cabinet meeting on March 25
Jordan spoke with Trump about the upcoming hearing, while the couple watched the NCAA Wrestling Championships in Ohio in the weekend.
Eliminating lower courts and the redistribution of judges in other functions was previously ordered by the congress, but practice is unusual.
The issue can come to a peak during the upcoming loans and the government financing process, whereby legislators insist on defending or reorganizing some lower courts.
