{"id":2415070,"date":"2025-03-25T13:39:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T17:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-schedules-federal-judges-hearing-as-mike-johnson-tamps-down-impeachment-talk-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-03-25T13:41:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T17:41:12","slug":"house-schedules-federal-judges-hearing-as-mike-johnson-tamps-down-impeachment-talk-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-schedules-federal-judges-hearing-as-mike-johnson-tamps-down-impeachment-talk-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"House schedules federal judges hearing as Mike Johnson tamps down impeachment talk &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhouse-schedules-federal-judges-hearing-as-mike-johnson-tamps-down-impeachment-talk-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2415070&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The House Judiciary Committee is set to hold a hearing on April 1 focused on federal judges who have blocked actions from the Trump governance, as House Speaker Mike Johnson seeks to ease growing impeachment discussions among hard-line Republicans. The committee, led by Chairman Jim Jordan, is investigating claims that certain judges have overstepped their authority, particularly regarding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/swing-district-iowa-dem-very-active-in-group-that-wants-to-abolish-ice-establish-sanctuary-cities\/\" title=\"Swing-... Iowa Dem \u2018Very Active\u2019 in Group That Wants to Abolish ICE, Establish Sanctuary Cities\">illegal immigrant deportations<\/a>. Some Republicans have pushed for impeachment of judges like James E. Boasberg and Paul Engelmayer, citing judicial overreach. However, Johnson indicated that the impeachment process is complex and not supported by all Republicans, thus opting for committee hearings to address these concerns.Additionally, other legislative efforts, such as Rep. Darrell Issa\u2019s proposed &#8220;no Rogue Rulings Act,&#8221; aim to curtail the power of district judges. Democrats have criticized Republicans for their focus on impeachment efforts instead of addressing priority issues for the American public, asserting that there are not enough votes for removal in the House or Senate.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">House schedules federal judges hearing as Mike Johnson tamps down impeachment talk<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2074349\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/house-judiciary-committee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">House Judiciary Committee<\/a> is preparing for a hearing early next week on federal judges blocking actions by the Trump administration as House Speaker <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/mike-johnson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Mike Johnson<\/a> (R-LA) continues to temper the flames of impeachment fanned by hard-line Republicans in his conference.<\/p>\n<p>The powerful committee will hold a hearing on the judges on April 1, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em>. Chairman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/jim-jordan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Jim Jordan<\/a> (R-OH) told reporters on Tuesday that he had an idea of who the witnesses would be, but he is not ready to announce them at this time. Johnson said, &ldquo;we&rsquo;ll see&rdquo; when asked if the judges could be called as witnesses.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3358014\/john-ratcliffe-signal-approved-communication-biden-administration\/\">Ratcliffe: Signal was approved for communication use by Biden administration<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3357946\/watch-live-house-gop-leaders-news-conference-budget-talks-continue\/\">WATCH LIVE: House GOP leaders hold news conference as budget talks continue<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3357631\/democrats-footholds-florida-special-congressional-elections\/\">Democrats fight to gain footholds in Florida as GOP concerns rise over fundraising<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Republicans have zeroed in on federal judges for blocking executive actions such as illegal immigrant deportations, arguing they are &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-gop-moves-to-impeach-judge-over-deportation-flights-pause\/\" title=\"... GOP moves to impeach judge over deportation flights pause\">radical activist&#038;rdquo<\/a>; judges who have overstepped their judicial authority. Hard-line Republicans, such as Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX), have heeded calls from President Donald Trump and filed articles to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3351368\/house-gop-moves-impeach-judge-deportation-flights-pause\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">impeach judges<\/a> such as James E. Boasberg, the chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, and Judge Paul Engelmayer of the Southern District of New York.<\/p>\n<p>Impeachment is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3353265\/impeaching-judges-house-judiciary-committee-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">complex and rare process<\/a> that requires a high voting threshold to pass the articles out of the House and Senate chambers. Republicans have not overwhelmingly agreed that federal judges should be tried for high crimes and misdemeanors in Congress, so leadership is eyeing the Judiciary Committee as the proper place to hold hearings on judicial overreach.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/olivia_beavers\/status\/1904531548784758962?s=46\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">told<\/a> Republicans during their <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">weekly closed-door conference meeting<\/a> on Tuesday that the work would be done within the committee rather than bringing Gill&rsquo;s bill to the floor,&nbsp;where it could fail if enough centrist Republicans opted to vote against it.<\/p>\n<p>The speaker said during a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gov-whitmer-media-caught-in-another-lie-anarchist-arrested-for-plot-to-kidnap-and-kill-whitmer-hates-president-trump-trump-is-a-tyrant-video\/\" title=\"Gov. Whitmer, Media Caught in Another Lie - Anarchist Arrested For Plot to Kidnap and Kill Whitmer Hates President Trump, &#039;Trump is a Tyrant&#039; (VIDEO)\">press conference<\/a> that he spoke with Jordan regarding the judge hearings and confirmed the testimonies would happen next week to &ldquo;highlight these abuses.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It is a dangerous trend, and it violates equal justice under law, that critical principle,&rdquo; Johnson said of the injunctions against Trump&rsquo;s orders. &ldquo;It violates our system itself. It violates the separation of powers. When a judge thinks that they can enjoin something that a president is doing, that the American people voted for, that is not what the Founders intended.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;So, there&rsquo;s a natural tension between the branches of the government, and we&rsquo;re working through that,&rdquo; the speaker added. &ldquo;The Judiciary Committee is looking at alternatives.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Besides hearings, another alternative is Rep. Darrell Issa&rsquo;s (R-CA) bill, the No Rogue Rulings Act of 2025. The legislation, which was already voted out of committee, would limit the power of district judges to impose nationwide injunctions. It is set for a vote next week, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson also unveiled another avenue Republicans could take to push back against the judges &mdash; eliminating courts altogether.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We do have authority over the federal courts, as you know,&rdquo; the speaker said. &ldquo;We can eliminate an entire district, or &mdash; we have the power of funding over the courts and all these other things. But desperate times call for desperate measures, and Congress is going to act, so stay tuned for that.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Even if the impeachment articles or Issa&rsquo;s bill were able to squeak through the House, Republicans would be in real trouble in the Senate.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Issa&rsquo;s bill would fall under the normal 60-vote threshold for the filibuster, which may be difficult but not impossible to do if centrist Democrats in swing states vote to advance the measure. However, in cases of impeachment articles, a conviction and removal of a federal judge requires a two-thirds majority or 67 senators. Republicans currently hold 53 seats in the Senate.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/house\/3353265\/impeaching-judges-house-judiciary-committee-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">TOUGH ROAD TO IMPEACHING JUDGES RUNS THROUGH HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Democrats were quick to blast Republicans for wasting the chambers&rsquo; time with the threat of impeachment articles to gain Trump&rsquo;s favor.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Not a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/scotus-skeptical-of-biden-admins-deportation-policy\/\" title=\"SCOTUS Skeptical of Biden Admin&#039;s Deportation Policy\">single federal judge<\/a> is getting impeached,&rdquo; House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) said on Monday. &ldquo;Drop it. It&rsquo;s not happening. You don&rsquo;t even have the votes in the House of Representatives, and it&rsquo;s definitely not happening in the United States Senate. Why are Republicans obsessed with trying to please Donald Trump, as opposed to trying to help the American people?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2074349\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2074349\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House schedules hearing on federal judges as Johnson cools impeachment talk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2648,"featured_media":2415071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/AP25022587701648.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[41739,3679,3653,3636,34218],"class_list":["post-2415070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-federal-judges","tag-hearing","tag-house","tag-impeachment","tag-mike-johnson"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/AP25022587701648.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2648"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2415070"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2415074,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415070\/revisions\/2415074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2415071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2415070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2415070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2415070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}