Overview

• Senate Republicans, including Ted Cruz and Eric Schmitt, denounced judges for issuing broad national injunctions that halt Trump administration policies in a Judiciary Committee hearing.
• They highlighted over 40 nationwide injunctions in the first four months of 2025, surpassing the total number issued throughout the 20th century and concentrated in five judicial districts.
• Cruz labeled the orders “judicial tyranny,” warning that unelected judges serve lifetime terms without electoral checks and can override decisions by the president and Congress.
• Senate Democrats, including Sheldon Whitehouse and Peter Welch, defended the judiciary’s duty to block allegedly unlawful executive actions and opposed legislative measures to curtail court authority.
• The House approved the No Rogue Rulings Act to limit lower-court injunctions, but the Senate has yet to consider the measure and the Supreme Court may soon weigh in on the dispute.