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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich recently has been critical of district judges across the nation "shaping national policy" by asserting that they have control over certain Executive Branch responsibilities, issuing nationwide injunctions, and more.
During a recent interview with "Kudlow" he warned that this is a pivotal moment in history as, "You cannot have individual, random district judges who get up in the morning and say, 'I think I'll play president tonight, today. And some of their rulings are crazy."
But it's getting worse, to the point he believes America now is living through a potential "judicial coup d'etat."
"There is clearly a potential constitutional crisis involving the Judicial Branch's effort to fully override the Legislative and Executive branches," he said in testimony to Congress.
He pointed out that 15 lower court judges "effectively seized control of various Executive Branch duties" during just the first six weeks of President Donald Trump's second term.
"This is potentially a judicial coup d'etat," he confirmed. "It clearly violates the Constitution and more than 200 years of American history."
He said during the "Kudlow" interview, "There are already more of these [rulings] coming down the road than the Supreme Court has ever heard in a single term. I would hope that the Supreme Court Chief Justice [John Roberts] would intervene, indicate that there's something clearly wrong here, and that they're going to follow a procedure so that the executive branch is not being dictated to by random individual district judges."
He said Roberts' response to the crisis so far has been abysmal.
"He put out a press release about 10 days ago lecturing President Trump and saying there's an appeals process. That's nonsense. If you are involved with crime, with violence, with national security, you can't have some judge make rendered an injunction," Gingrich said. "And then, six weeks, eight weeks, nine weeks from now, maybe it'll get taken up."
The Gateway Pundit noted his testimony to Congress was before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet and the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government.
Gingrich also pointed out that there were 12 federal judges appointed by President John Adams "on his way out of office to hamstring incoming President Thomas Jefferson's agenda."
Impeachment was too slow, so Jefferson and Congress "simply abolished the courts in which they served via the Judiciary Act of 1802," he said.
He also noted the huge number of nationwide injunctions that judges are using to target the Trump administration.
And more than 90% are from "judges appointed by Democratic presidents."
"The notion that unelected lawyers can micromanage the Executive Branch – and override a Commander in Chief who received 77.3 million votes – should trouble every American," he warned.
