Republicans in recent weeks have decried rulings from district court judges that halted some Trump administration actions, despite backing similar court actions during the last administration and enacting a law last month that gives states more power to ask judges to upend federal immigration policies.
President Donald Trump chafed at the restrictions from the judicial branch after a series of decisions this month related to the Department of Government Efficiency, telling reporters that cost-cutting efforts were “being hindered by courts where they file in certain courts where it’s very hard to win and a judge will stop us.”
It’s a familiar dynamic over more than a decade of partisan politics, and one that Republicans praised under the Biden administration. State attorneys general and activist groups on both sides of the aisle filed lawsuits against the federal government in what they think of as friendly courts and seek court orders blocking the incumbent administration’s policies.
