Thread - While at a hearing, I see AG Sessions is none too pleased with all these injunctions people keep filing against the federal government or its programs/regs/laws. Slamming "judicial activism" today, he released new guidelines. Those are here: justice.gov/opa/press-rele…
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In a statement, Sessions said: "Increasingly, we are seeing individual federal district judges go beyond the parties before the court to give injunctions or orders that block the entire federal government from enforcing a law or policy throughout the country...
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"This kind of judicial activism did not happen a single time in our first 175 years as a nation, but it has become common in recent years. It has happened to the Trump administration 25 times in less than two years. This trend must stop. We have a government to run. "
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"The Constitution does not grant to a single district judge the power to veto executive branch actions with respect to parties not before the court. Nor does it provide the judiciary with authority to conduct oversight of or review policy of the executive branch."
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"These abuses of judicial power are contrary to law, and with these new guidelines, this Department is going to continue to fight them.”
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