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Saturday, September 07, 2019

AG William Barr demands end to nationwide injunctions empowering lone 'sympathetic' judges

Attorney General William Barr is calling for an end to nationwide injunctions, which have become recurrent obstacles in the way of President Trump's agenda.

With the frequency of judges' orders blocking the enforcement of federal laws and policies on the rise, Barr's op-ed in the Wall Street Journal escalates the Justice Department's fight to check this facet of the judicial branch's power.

Nationwide injunctions, he wrote, "create an unfair, one-way system in which the democratically accountable government must fend off case after case to put its policy into effect, while those challenging the policy need only find a single sympathetic judge."

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

It should take 51% of all judges to stop a Presidential order NOT 1.

Anonymous said...

I don't think any judge should be allowed to overrule the President. If a judgment made by the President doesn't bode well then it should be taken to the Supreme Court for immediate action.