The US House plans to vote next week on a bill to curb the authority of lone federal judges to block executive branch policies nationwide, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise said.
The Louisiana Republican offered the timetable in a post on Monday on the social media platform X. Scalise sets the chamber’s legislative agenda.
The bill put forward by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) would “limit the judicial overreach of partisan federal judges issuing political nationwide injunctions to impede President Trump’s agenda the majority of American voters elected him to carry out,” Scalise wrote.
Specifically, the proposal (HR 1526) would block ...
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