BY TAL AXELROD
The two Republicans, both close allies of President Trump, noted the bill follows a decision from a federal judge in California Monday that reinstated a ban on implementing a new policy that would curtail migrants’ ability to apply for asylum at the southern border. An appeals court on Wednesday narrowed that injunction to just Arizona and California, the two border states within its jurisdiction, allowing the administration to apply the rule in New Mexico and Texas.
“Our laws need to be vigorously vetted through the courts, but it makes zero sense for the legality of a nationwide law to rest entirely on the opinion of one judge, or one district court,” said Meadows. “Current law inadvertently empowers detrimental judicial activism, and it needs to change. This is a common-sense reform that returns our system of checks and balances where it was intended to be.”
“Policy decisions ought to be made by elected representatives accountable to the American people, not activist judges with lifetime appointments. In the past few years, we’ve seen an explosion of activist forum shopping and nationwide injunctions to thwart the administration’s priorities and grind government to a halt,” added Cotton.
The separation of powers doctrine has gone out of favor with these so called constitutional conservatives, (poseurs) of the far right. They would prefer to have government by Trump’s cult of personality.
Of course this bill is going nowhere in the Democratically controlled house, so this is just posturing for Trump’s perpetually angry base. Posturing over policy is the Republican way.
Tom Cotton and Mark Meadows. Two Banana Republicans