{"id":43046,"date":"2025-06-03T21:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T02:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=43046"},"modified":"2025-06-03T21:43:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T02:43:56","slug":"hawley-spars-with-legal-professor-over-injunctions-blocking-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=43046","title":{"rendered":"Hawley spars with legal professor over injunctions blocking Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sen. Josh Hawley\u2002<\/u><\/a>(R-Mo.) sparred with a legal professor during a Tuesday congressional hearing over nationwide injunctions issued by district court judges against President Trump\u2019s\u2002<\/u><\/a>administration. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hawley, during the Senate Judiciary joint subcommittee hearing, presented a graph<\/u><\/a> showing that the number of injunctions issued against Trump is far higher than other recent U.S. presidents. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t think this is a little bit anomalous?\u201d Hawley asked University of Pennsylvania Law School professor Kate Shaw. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA very plausible explanation, senator, you have to consider is that he [Trump] is engaged in much more lawless activity than other presidents, right,\u201d Shaw said. \u201cYou must concede that as a possibility.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hawley argued that nationwide injunctions, which judges have issued in recent months to temporarily halt or slow down the actions of the executive branch, had not been used before the 1960s and that \u201csuddenly Democrat judges decide we love the nationwide injunction, and then when Biden comes into office, no, no.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shaw, a Supreme Court contributor for ABC News, noted that Republican-appointed justices have also imposed injunctions against the administration and added that the 1960s was \u201cwhere some scholars begin \u2014 sort of locate the beginning of this.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The professor, who worked in the Obama\u2002<\/u><\/a>White House Counsel\u2019s Office, said that Mila Sohoni, \u201cwho\u2019s another scholar of universal injunction, suggests 1913 is actually the first and others in the \u201920s.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe federal government was doing a lot less until 100 years ago,\u201d Shaw said. \u201cThere\u2019s many things that have changed in the last 100 or the last 50 years.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo as long as it is a Democrat president in office, then we should have no nationwide injunctions,\u201d Hawley said during the exchange. \u201cIf it\u2019s a Republican president, then this is absolutely fine, warranted and called for.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

During Trump\u2019s second White House term, judges have ruled against the president\u2019s efforts regarding mass deportations, federal funding cuts, efforts to terminate federal workers and tariffs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other GOP senators voiced their displeasure with the judges\u2019 rulings during the Tuesday hearing. Republicans in Congress introduced measures<\/u><\/a> earlier this year that would curb nationwide injunctions, saying it would prevent jurists from overreaching, while Democrats have said that judges are just doing their jobs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Missouri senator also asked, \u201cHow can our system of law survive on those principles, professor?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think a system in which there are no constraints on the president is a very dangerous system,\u201d Shaw responded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hawley fired back at Shaw, saying that it was not the argument she used when former President Biden occupied the Oval Office. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou said it was a travesty for the principles of democracy, notions of judicial impartiality and the rule of law,\u201d Hawley said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou also said when Joe Biden\u2002<\/u><\/a>was president, you said the idea that anyone would foreign shop to get a judge who would issue a nationwide objection was just judges looking like politicians in robes, again, it threatened the underlying legal system. It was just trying to get the result they wanted. It was a travesty for the rule of law,\u201d the GOP lawmaker added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sen. Josh Hawley\u2002(R-Mo.) sparred with a legal professor during a Tuesday congressional hearing over nationwide injunctions issued by district court judges against President Trump\u2019s\u2002administration.  Hawley, during the Senate Judiciary joint subcommittee hearing, presented a graph showing that the number of injunctions issued against Trump is far higher than other recent U.S. presidents.  \u201cYou don\u2019t think this is a little […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":43047,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[26526,1370,1838],"class_list":["post-43046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-hawley","tag-legal","tag-professor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43046"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43049,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43046\/revisions\/43049"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}