Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich expressed concern on Fox Business Tuesday about district judges influencing national policy, particularly when they overturn decisions made by President Donald Trump. During his appearance on “Kudlow,” Gingrich called this a critical moment in U.S. history.
“There are already more of these [rulings] coming down the road than the Supreme Court has ever heard in a single term. I would hope that the Supreme Court Chief Justice [John Roberts] would intervene, indicate that there’s something clearly wrong here and that they’re going to follow a procedure so that the executive branch is not being dictated to by random individual district judges,” Gingrich told host Larry Kudlow, himself an economic adviser to Trump during his first term.
Gingrich intimated that the pattern of interference being demonstrated by district judges creates a constitutional crisis. “You have, I think, the fifth large change after Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln and FDR. And this is underway. And, of course, the old order is going to fight it every way it can,” Gingrich said. “And one of their last strongholds are these left-wing judges. And we have to make clear that that is illegitimate.” He added that the judges are undermining Trump’s constitutional Executive Branch authorities.
“You cannot have individual, random district judges who get up in the morning and say, ‘I think I’ll play president tonight, today.’ And some of their rulings are crazy,” Gingrich said, adding that he’s disappointed in a recent statement by Roberts who claimed that “impeachment” is not a “suitable remedy” for out-of-control judges, though the framers included it as just that in the Constitution.
“He put out a press release about 10 days ago lecturing President Trump and saying there’s an appeals process. That’s nonsense. If you are involved with crime, with violence, with national security, you can’t have some judge make rendered an injunction,” Gingrich said. “And then, six weeks, eight weeks, nine weeks from now, maybe it’ll get taken up.”
Trump accused Chief Judge James Boasberg of the D.C. District Court of having a conflict of interest after Boasberg blocked the Trump administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to expedite the deportation of Venezuelan gang members. Boasberg, who had previously participated in a mock trial with Vice President Kamala Harris’ husband, faced criticism for potentially undermining Trump’s orders due to personal ties. In response, Chief Justice Roberts rejected Trump’s call for Boasberg’s impeachment, stating that impeachment is not an appropriate course of action when one disagrees with judicial decisions.
