As activist federal judges continue to block the Trump Administration’s America First agenda, Republican lawmakers in Washington, D.C., are searching for a way around the ongoing judicial overreach.

On Tuesday, a group of elected officials, including U.S. Senators Tommy Tuberville and Katie Britt, filed legislation limiting federal court orders to parties directly before the court. If enacted, the Judicial Relief Clarification Act of 2025 would end the practice of universal injunctions and clarify the constitutional role of the judicial branch.

Additionally, it would amend the Administrative Procedure Act and the Declaratory Judgment Act to limit courts’ decisions to the parties before them and make temporary restraining orders (TROs) immediately appealable.

Both Tuberville and Britt have been outspoken critics of the controversial judicial rulings.

“President Trump has exposed the fact that our courts are full of woke activist judges who think they were elected President. But they were not,” Tuberville (R-Auburn) said in a press statement. “More than 77 million Americans voted for President Trump and his agenda – and liberal judges should not be allowed to issue injunctions on policies they do not agree with. We need our justice system to focus on upholding the Constitution, not pushing an agenda. If judges have a problem with that, they can run for political office.”

Britt joined Chris Saledo of Newsmax to discuss the legislation and its importance.

“I am proud to be a co-sponsor of Senator Chuck Grassley’s efforts that will do exactly what you just said,” Britt (R-Montgomery) told Saledo. “It will make sure that one judge, one district judge, cannot issue a nationwide injunction without actually certifying a class.”

Co-sponsoring @ChuckGrassley's bill addressing judicial overreach. As Justice Kagan has noted, one district judge shouldn't be able to set policy for the entire nation. Tune in to our hearing tomorrow for more! pic.twitter.com/I2NH5aIhbO

— Senator Katie Boyd Britt (@SenKatieBritt) April 1, 2025

“Look, there are ways to go about doing this, but unfortunately, we’ve seen far too often that the APA is interpreted incorrectly. So the clarification of that is coming. We’re going to have a hearing on it tomorrow. I am sure Senator Kennedy will have some really good questions, so everybody should tune in. We’re going to make sure that Americans can actually get answers and that we set the parameters as our forefathers intended them to be, to make sure that people can be heard.”

Britt referenced a liberal Supreme Court justice’s view on singular judges blocking executive policy to illustrate the continued hypocrisy from Democrats on the matter.

“One judge, as Justice Kagan actually said, one district judge, should not be able to halt policy across the entire nation in the way that they’re doing right now.”

In the first two months of President Trump’s second term, district court judges have issued more universal injunctions against his policies than the Biden administration experienced in a full term.

Austen Shipley is the News Director for Yellowhammer News. You can follow him on X @ShipleyAusten