00:00So, yeah. Nice one. Yeah.
00:02On judicial impeachments, you have a lot of resolutions that are in front of you right now.
00:07I know your focus is on budget reconciliation.
00:09Is your plan to bring up these impeachment resolutions that have been brought forward?
00:12And if you do, are you concerned this will stall any progress that you want to make with regards to budget reconciliation?
00:17We're working with the Judiciary Committee, which is the appropriate area of jurisdiction for that.
00:22I talked to Chairman Jordan this morning about it.
00:24And they'll be having a hearing early next week, I believe, to highlight these abuses.
00:29Let me just say this, and I know that you all have seen the numbers, but this is a serious problem.
00:33I used to be a litigator. I was a constitutional law attorney.
00:35I used to litigate all these cases for 20 years.
00:37Routinely, I would have activist judges issue opinions against me, and I would go get them overturned on appeal.
00:43That is the process.
00:44But something is happening right now that has not happened before.
00:47In the last 100 years—listen to this—67% of the injunctions issued against a president were issued against one president alone, and that's Donald J. Trump.
00:5667% of the injunctions over the last 100 years, okay? That's a problem.
01:0192% of those were issued by judges who were known or accused of being partisan, you know, Democrat appointees to the court.
01:08So something unusual is happening, something that is out of the norm.
01:12It is a dangerous trend, and it violates equal justice under law, that critical principle.
01:17It violates our system itself.
01:20It violates separation of powers when a judge thinks that they can enjoin something that a president is doing that the American people voted for.
01:27That is not what the founders intended.
01:28So there's a natural tension between the branches of the government, and we're working through that.
01:34The Judiciary Committee is looking at alternatives.
01:36One of the bills that I really like that's already been through committee was authored by Representative Daryl Issa,
01:41and that would limit the scope of federal injunctions, the ability of one individual judge to abuse the system in this way.
01:48And it would be, in my view, a dramatic improvement on that.
01:51So we'll be moving, I think, that piece of legislation and some others to address it
01:55because we have an Article I authority under the Constitution to do that.
01:58We do have authority over the federal courts, as you know.
02:01We can eliminate an entire district court.
02:03We have power funding over the courts and all these other things.
02:07But desperate times call for desperate measures, and Congress is going to act.
02:10So stay tuned for that.
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