Overview

• Senator Josh Hawley displayed data showing district courts issued more nationwide injunctions against President Trump than against any recent president
• Hawley accused Professor Kate Shaw of inconsistency for condemning injunctions under President Biden while endorsing them against President Trump
• Republicans proposed legislation to limit nationwide injunctions as judicial overreach, and Democrats defended them as essential enforcement of constitutional checks
• Shaw cited legal scholarship tracing the first nationwide injunction to 1913 to counter Hawley’s claim that the practice began in the 1960s
• These injunctions have halted Trump administration actions on deportations, federal funding cuts and tariffs, intensifying the separation-of-powers debate