John,
The No Rogue Rulings Act isn’t about stopping “rogue rulings.” It’s about removing all the checks from a rogue presidency.
Last week, Speaker Mike Johnson and House Republicans passed the misnamed No Rogue Rulings Act -- a bill designed to strip federal judges of their power to issue nationwide injunctions. The real purpose of this bill isn’t to fix the courts. It’s to obliterate one of the last constitutional barriers standing between Donald Trump and unchecked executive power.
This highly dangerous piece of legislation would dismantle the judiciary's constitutional role as a check on executive power, and make the President a law unto himself. Shattering the judiciary’s ability to defend the Constitution, it would greenlight a presidency that rules by decree, like a king, not by laws established through democratic process.
Throughout both terms of Trump’s presidency, it has not been Congress that stopped his most lawless acts. It was federal judges. When Trump tried to ban Muslims from entering the U.S., federal judges blocked it. And when he tried to strip birthright citizenship, deport people without due process, or end DACA protections overnight, it was judges who held the line.
Now, Trump and his allies are removing the bolts from those very guardrails -- so that next time, no judge will be able to stop him. Not even the Supreme Court.
Tell the Senate to reject the No Rogue Rulings Act. Protect our courts. Protect the rule of law. Protect our democracy.
If passed, the No Rogue Rulings Act would bar federal district judges from issuing national injunctions, even in cases where the government is clearly violating the Constitution. That means Trump could violate your rights, target whole communities, or defy the law entirely -- without fear of any immediate legal consequence.
This is a direct attack on the judiciary’s constitutional role as a coequal branch of government.
And it’s being orchestrated by the same inner circle that brought us the Muslim ban, child separation, and mass deportations. Trump adviser Stephen Miller is already smearing judges as “extreme” for doing their jobs. Meanwhile, GOP members like Rep. Darrell Issa are pushing conspiracy theories about “activist judges” to justify dismantling judicial independence.
This is how democracy dies: by disabling the institutions that defend it.
If the Senate doesn’t block this bill, the courts could lose their power to stop any unlawful executive order -- no matter how sweeping, cruel, or unconstitutional. We’ve seen what Trump does when he’s constrained. Imagine what he’d do if no one could stop him.
We must act now to preserve the Constitutional separation of powers: to keep the presidency from mutating into a dictatorship.
Tell the Senate to reject the No Rogue Rulings Act now. Don’t let Congress turn the president into a king.
Thank you for fighting to keep checks and balances on Executive power -- before it’s too late.
- DFA AF Team