I have talked about this before but it’s time to limit the power of US District Court judges to issue nationwide TRO’s and injunctions. In the federal legal system there are 94 districts and 12 geographic circuits plus a 13th the Federal Circuit which has nationwide jurisdiction but only over a specific set of issues.

Now I think I previously advocated for district court judges to only be able to issue injunctions that pertain only to their districts. Thinking about it today, I think they should be able to issue injunctions that pertain to their circuit. The reason I changed my mind is because when some action is clearly illegal or unconstitutional, then it would require the filing of 94 suits to stop it. I think 12 is enough. However either the Supreme Court, and Justice Thomas has suggested such before, or the Congress needs to pass a law restricting the district court judges. Under the Constitution the Congress sets the power and jurisdiction of all courts below the Supreme Court.

Look we had Loopy Letitia file a case in Manhattan to stop the confirmed Secretary of the Treasury from having access to Treasury Department documents and records. On its face that is ludicrous and yet the activist judge issued a TRO ex parte, meaning without hearing from the other side, on total unsupported claims of irreversible damage. Now consider that the Treasury Department and the Secretary are located in DC not NY. He has no jurisdiction in DC!

This has to stop.