‘We can eliminate an entire district court’: Mike Johnson threatens anti-Trump, activist judges
The U.S. Constitution specifically sets up the Supreme Court.
It does not do the same with lower courts: It leaves that up the Congress, a fact that House Speaker Mike Johnson has pointed out to a list of activist judges who have delivered partisan injunctions against President Donald Trump’s agenda, injunctions that follow a leftist partisan line and encroach on the authorities of the executive branch.
“We do have authority over the federal courts,” he explained. “We can eliminate an entire district court.”
A report in the Daily Mail called the comment a “pointed warning to judges nationwide as local courts have slowed the rollout of Donald Trump’s political agenda.”
Johnson explained, “We do have power over funding over the courts and all these other things. But desperate times call for desperate measures, and Congress is going to act.”
Mike Johnson warns that Congress has the power to eliminate an entire district court and that desperate times call for desperate measures.
Trump has been letting them expose themselves so people will understand when Congress defunds and disbands these corrupt federal courts. pic.twitter.com/qND80ODJtg
— RealAF Patriot (@RealAF_Patriot) March 26, 2025
The publication called the comment a “veiled reminder, if not threat, that Congress has their eyes on district judges that have issued injunctions and rulings against Trump’s policies.”
District judges, in fact, have taken over executive branch decision-making regarding DOGE, spending, hiring of executive branch employees, immigration, deportation of criminal illegal aliens, international policy, and much more.
There already have been moves to begin impeachment cases against some of the judges involved with the more egregious rulings, such as a Washington judge who ordered the administration to turn airplanes deporting criminal illegals around in midair and return the terror suspects to the U.S. He even demanded from the White House national security details to which he was not authorized to access.
Even Trump has called for the impeachment of that judge, James Boasberg, who had established a reputation as a leftist activist for demanding harsher penalties than the law allowed for J6 protesters in Washington.
Johnson said he’s not planning to destroy any court, but was reminding people of the authorities of Congress.
Article III of the Constitution assigns to Congress the authority to “ordain and establish” courts beneath the Supreme Court.
The House Judiciary Committee has a hearing next week to review the leftist rulings that encroach on the executive branch authorities.