During debate on the House floor, Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) spoke in support of a package of bills backed by House Republicans, and slammed district judges over injunctions on some of President Trump's Executive Orders.
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00:00I thank the gentlelady from North Carolina and the chairman of the Rules Committee and my friend.
00:04Talking about rigging the rules, my colleagues on the other side of the aisle are all too happy to have district judges rig the rules to stop the President of the United States from being able to defend our country.
00:19Right. Just last week, just last week, within close proximity to my house in Dripping Springs, Texas, 47 individuals who are affiliated with the gang Tren de Agua were found by ICE right down the road in suburban Austin, Texas.
00:37Forty-seven people, including nine children, what was a stash house, moving narcotics through it, the same gang that killed Jocelyn Nungere last summer, the same gang that was torturing and driving fear into the hearts of the people in Aurora, Colorado, in the apartment complexes that my colleagues on the other side of the aisle refuse to acknowledge.
00:57These are all the same people that are being allowed to vote, the same people that we were elected in November to remove from the country.
01:05And the President of the United States as commander-in-chief and defending the United States and as the chief executive is carrying out the laws to remove dangerous individuals from the United States of America.
01:14And then an activist district judge in the District of Columbia decided, in his view, he had to step in.
01:23He had to step in and try to assert his jurisdiction where it did not belong, to try to stop the President of the United States from removing dangerous gang members that are killing Americans.
01:35Now, what happened yesterday?
01:36The United States Supreme Court said, whoa, whoa, whoa, you don't get to do that, Mr. District Judge in D.C.
01:43If you're going to do this, you have to do this in Texas.
01:45Well, that was the whole point.
01:47Just today, we had another ruling out of the Supreme Court slapping down yet another activist judge.
01:54Now, what are we doing?
01:55The gentleman from Massachusetts asked, what are we doing as Republicans?
01:58We are putting forward language today that would stop rogue district judges from carrying out nationwide injunctions and temporary restraining orders that are trying to effectively legislate from the bench.
02:11Now, we're not alone in that position.
02:15The Biden administration's Solicitor General in 2024 told the Supreme Court, Court of Equity may grant relief only to the parties before it.
02:23In 2022, that same Solicitor General asked the Supreme Court to address nationwide injunctions.
02:30Justice Elena Kagan in 2022 spoke out against the ability of a single judge to stop implementation of a policy across the country.
02:39Well, lo and behold, we're advancing bipartisan work to address a bipartisan problem that Democrats have very clearly identified.
02:48And the only difference now is that Donald Trump is in the White House instead of Joe Biden.
02:53The gentlelady, yield me an additional minute.
02:56I yield the gentleman an additional minute.
02:59I thank the gentlelady from North Carolina.
03:01So again, Republicans have brought forward in a rule a bill that addresses a problem that Democrats have identified as a problem to say that the parties before the court are the only ones to whom that it should apply
03:11allows for a mechanism to achieve nationwide injunctions through a three-judge panel.
03:16Now, what else are we bringing to the floor?
03:18A bill that will say that only American citizens should vote in American elections.
03:23Oh, the controversy.
03:25Oh, my gosh.
03:26Oh, the bloodletting.
03:27That we might say in the United States House of Representatives that only American citizens
03:32should be able to vote in American elections.
03:35But that's what we're doing.
03:36Republicans are responding to an American people who are tired of the previous administration
03:40that was allowing illegals to come into our country, kill our citizens, vote in our elections, undermine our country.
03:46And we are addressing their concerns.
03:47And our colleagues on the other side of the aisle don't want to address it.
03:50I stand in support of the rule, and I thank the gentlelady from North Carolina.
03:53Thanks, sir.