Johnson's Impeachment

Mike Johnson, House Speaker and court

House Speaker Mike Johnson: 'We do have authority over the federal courts'

"We can eliminate an entire district court, we have power of funding over the courts and all these other things. But desperate times call for desperate measures and Congress is going to act." More: Trump shares post accusing judges of 'sedition and treason' for blocking his agendaStart the day smarter.

Washington Examiner on MSN · 2d

House schedules federal judges hearing as Mike Johnson tamps down impeachment talk

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said the Judiciary Committee is looking at "alternatives" to impeachment for federal judges who block Trump administration executive orders.

U.S. News & World Report · 2d

US House Speaker Johnson Says Congress Can 'Eliminate' District Courts

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday warned that Congress' authority over the federal judiciary includes the power to eliminate entire district courts, as the White House rails against "activist" judges blocking Republican President Donald Trump's agenda.

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Mike Johnson just hinted at undermining the entire system of checks and balances

This week, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson floated the idea of hobbling our lower federal courts and hence undermining our ...

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Johnson stresses Congress’s power over courts: ‘Desperate times call for desperate measures’

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Tuesday drew attention to Congress’s power over the federal judiciary as Republicans plot how ...

Johnson’s impeachment headache

Speaker Mike Johnson has a new headache: President Donald Trump ’s call to impeach federal judges.

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Congress Isn’t Just Standing By As Trump Abuses His Power. It’s Doing Something Far Worse.

As Donald Trump breaks the bounds of his legal authority and collapses the constitutional separation of powers between ...

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As Trump and his allies push to impeach judges, Speaker Mike Johnson eyes an escape hatch

Johnson has backed a bill seeking to bar district judges from issuing nationwide injunctions, an alternative to House ...

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Hill Republicans already hated the ‘idiotic’ call to impeach judges. Then Trump jumped in.

“Everything is on the table,” said Russell Dye, a spokesperson for House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), who would oversee impeachment proceedings. A Johnson spokesperson said judges ...

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House GOP looks to rein in judicial power amid calls for impeachment

While House Republicans are unlikely to cobble together the votes to answer President Trump’s call to impeach federal judges ...

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'Futile exercise': House GOP push to impeach judges blocking Trump fizzles out

House Republicans are coalescing around Rep. Darrell Issa's bill to limit judges' ability to issue nationwide injunctions as ...

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