Senator Schmitt Chairs Judiciary Hearing Exposing Abuse of Judicial Branch

Highlights Abuse of Random Selection Process

WASHINGTON – Today, Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO) chaired a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on district court judges overstepping their Constitutional authority to obstruct President Trump’s agenda and their abuse of the random judicial case selection process:

Watch Senator Schmitt’s Opening Remarks HERE

“District judges have abused the random judicial case selection process.

There can be democratic accountability, no republican government, with an overly activist Judiciary, that allows over 600 judges to wield limitless power.

In March, Chief Justice Boasberg, right here in DC, has found himself into four major Trump cases, a statistical impossibility. Boasberg took over the Alien Enemies Act and ordered planes to be turned around in the dead of night, despite not being the emergency judge on duty that night. It seems clear, as Chief Judge, he wants to be able to grab cases for himself.”

Senator Schmitt on the Legitimacy of the Judicial Branch:

“I don’t think anybody has a problem on this side of the aisle with a ref calling balls and strikes or calling a foul. The problem is, what if the ref’s daughter hired the coach?

What if the ref has money on the game. What if people start to question the legitimacy of the ref in the game? We all know what happens? People don’t watch it anymore. Vegas takes the game off the board.

So it gets to sort of this question of, as I reference in my opening statement with Hamilton, the reason why it’s supposed to be…the least dangerous branch is it relies on the other two branches for enforcement and the courts the Article III branch should be very well aware that if they lose legitimacy, they’re cooked, and that’s why we’re having the hearing.”

Watch Senator Schmitt’s full line of questioning to the witnesses HERE

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