Republican Reps. Andrew Clyde, of Georgia, and Eli Crane, of Arizona, are launching a judicial task force \u2018to unite members in exposing judicial activism\u2019 and target \u2018rogue, activist judges\u2019 amid a flurry of legal challenges to the Trump agenda.<\/p>\n
\u2018I\u2019m excited to lead this critical effort with my friend and fellow patriot, Congressman Eli Crane. Our Judicial Activism Accountability Task Force aims to unite members in exposing judicial activism, with the ultimate goal of impeaching rogue, activist judges,\u2019 Clyde said in a statement to Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n
Clyde notably announced in February he was drafting impeachment articles against Rhode Island-based District Judge John McConnell, who is overseeing a lawsuit against President Donald Trump. McConnell, at the time, filed a motion ordering the Trump administration to comply with a previous restraining order. The order temporarily blocked the administration\u2019s efforts to pause federal grants and loans.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Crane and other representatives have since followed Clyde\u2019s lead, announcing impeachment articles against other judges presiding over Trump-related lawsuits.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Clyde said he encourages other members of Congress to join the task force who \u2018are passionate about ending abusive judicial overreach, upholding the separation of powers, and defending the U.S. Constitution,\u2019 saying they \u2018look forward to delivering accountability for the American people.\u2019<\/p>\n
Crane, who announced he was drafting impeachment articles against U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer, told Fox News Digital in a statement that, in recent years, \u2018leftists weaponized the judicial branch.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Arizona Republican said, \u2018If these activist judges want to be politicians, they should resign and run for public office.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u2018The American people delivered President Trump a mandate to disrupt the administrative state,\u2019 Crane said. \u2018These judges are violating the will of the people, and Congress has constitutional authority to impeach and convict these partisans.\u2019<\/p>\n
Tennessee Republican Rep. Andy Ogles also announced he was drafting impeachment articles of his own following Clyde and Crane\u2019s efforts.<\/p>\n
Ogles announced he had introduced impeachment articles against U.S. District Judge Amir Ali late last month. Ali, a D.C.-based Biden appointee, recently ordered the Trump administration to pay around $2 billion in foreign aid funds to contractors with a midnight deadline.<\/p>\n
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts paused Ali\u2019s order after the Trump administration said it had created \u2018an untenable payment plan at odds with the President\u2019s obligations under Article II to protect the integrity of the federal fisc and make appropriate judgements(sic) about foreign aid \u2013 clear forms of irreparable harm.\u2019<\/p>\n
Clyde and Crane\u2019s task force comes as the administration has become the target of more than 90 lawsuits aimed at President Donald Trump\u2019s executive orders and directives. The legal challenges cover Trump\u2019s executive order on birthright citizenship, the Department of Government Efficiency\u2019s (DOGE) efforts to slash unnecessary government spending, and Trump\u2019s removal of various federal employees.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Clyde spoke with Fox News Digital shortly after announcing his impeachment articles against McConnell, saying the real victims of judicial pushback against Trump\u2019s policies are the American people.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u2018You\u2019re not just hurting the president,\u2019 Clyde said. \u2018You\u2019re hurting the American people because they\u2019re the ones who elected him, and they\u2019re the ones who want him to do this \u2013 to exercise these specific authorities. And these judges are really denying the American people their rights.\u2019<\/p>\n
Fox News Digital\u2019s Bradford Betz contributed to this report.<\/p>\n\n
Republican Reps. Andrew Clyde, of Georgia, and Eli Crane, of Arizona, are launching a judicial task force \u2018to unite members in exposing judicial activism\u2019 and target \u2018rogue, activist judges\u2019 amid a flurry of legal challenges to the Trump agenda. \u2018I\u2019m excited to lead this critical effort with my friend and fellow patriot, Congressman Eli Crane. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":37135,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-37134","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quickassetsmarket.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quickassetsmarket.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quickassetsmarket.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quickassetsmarket.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quickassetsmarket.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quickassetsmarket.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quickassetsmarket.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quickassetsmarket.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quickassetsmarket.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}