EJ Haust, a digital marketing expert and official guest host of The Michael Patrick Leahy Show, strongly believes district court judges have “no authority” to issue nationwide injunctions meant to block executive actions.
Since President Donald Trump has taken office, district judges have moved to issue nearly 20 nationwide injunctions to block his executive actions ranging from efforts to deport members of the violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, freeze federal funding, reduce the federal workforce, end birthright citizenship, and others.
In the U.S. House of Representatives, Republicans have filed a bill called the No Rogue Rulings Act of 2025 that would prevent all 677 judges across the 94 U.S. district courts from issuing injunctions that apply nationwide and instead only allow injunctions issued by the courts to benefit the plaintiffs in each specific case.
Haust said she believes some judges and activists on the left need a “civics lesson” on the separation of powers.
“What I find interesting is that when these arguments come up, a lot of people, particularly those on the left, seem to think that there is this struggle for power and who’s more powerful or who has more power than the other, while also simultaneously saying there’s a separation of powers. It’s odd to me that we can’t quite figure this out,” Haust explained on Tuesday’s show.
“I think a lot of people need a civics lesson. They need to go back and learn where bills are written, the order of things, who has the power of the purse, who has the power of the executive branch, what that entails exactly, and then what the judiciary can actually do,” Haust added.
Haust further noted that while district judges may form their own “opinion,” they do not reserve the right to issue injunctions impacting the entire nation.
“In a lot of cases, what we’re finding is that they can have an opinion, and that’s lovely. Thank you for your opinion, but there’s no teeth. There’s no enforcement mechanism for a reason. So these district judges and all of these other activist judges are forming plenty of opinions and they’re making them very public, but they don’t really have the authority to do anything with it,” Haust added.
Haust said it is “a shame” that activist judges are more interested in making a statement than upholding the rule of law.
“Judges should not be the story. The story should be the case. Activist judges are pretty interested in getting on camera these days and it is unfortunate. They’re becoming politicians,” Haust said.
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Kaitlin Housler is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network. Follow Kaitlin on X / Twitter.
