SCOOP: House to hold hearings next week on ‘activist judges’ blocking Trump agenda

FIRST ON FOX: The House Judiciary Committee is expected to hold a hearing early next week looking into the issue of “activist judges,” three people familiar with discussions told Fox News Digital.

It comes as the Trump administration has faced more than a dozen injunctions from various district court judges across the country on a range of policy decisions. The Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit will hear oral arguments in one of those cases Monday after President Donald Trump called for the impeachment of U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg.

House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, also confirmed on Fox News’ “America’s Newsroom” that he intended to hold hearings on “activist judges” opposing the administration. He said he expects a House-wide vote next week on a bill by Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., to block district judges from issuing nationwide injunctions. 

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President Donald Trump and U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg (Getty)

Two sources said they expected that vote next week or the week after, but one source stressed that conversations were still ongoing.

That comes as some conservatives push for impeachment as a way to punish judges blocking Trump’s agenda. 

A resolution by Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, has seen some attention from House GOP leadership after Trump specifically called for Boasberg to be impeached.

On Monday afternoon, the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit will hear oral arguments on whether the lower court can properly address the administration’s efforts to deport Venezuelan nationals via a 1798 wartime law. 

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan is holding hearings on activist judges next week. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Boasberg had issued a 14-day emergency injunction on Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport suspected Tren De Aragua gang members to a prison in El Salvador. The White House is now locked in a legal standoff over the order.

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Gill, who has also forged a close relationship with the president, told Fox News Digital when he introduced his bill in response to Boasberg earlier this month, he hoped it would go through the regular committee process. But it’s not clear if those plans have changed given House leaders’ inclination toward Issa’s bill.

Two sources also told Fox News Digital last week that Trump showed interest in Issa’s bill as well, telling Capitol Hill aides that “the president wants this.”

Freshman GOP Rep. Brandon Gill introduced a resolution to impeach Boasberg. (Getty Images)

However, if any conservative who has filed an impeachment resolution – Reps. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., and Eli Crane, R-Ariz., in addition to Gill – classified it as “privileged,” it would force House GOP leaders to take it up within two legislative days.

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Two sources told Fox News Digital last week that House leaders were wary of the impeachment route given the intense political maneuvering such a measure would take – only for it to likely die in the Senate.

Jordan praised Issa’s bill during his Fox News television interview on Monday, though his office did not immediately return a request for comment.