At today's House Judiciary Committee hearing, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) spoke about alleged judicial overreach in federal courts blocking President Trump's actions.
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00:00chairman of the full committee for his opening statement, Mr. Jordan. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
00:03Who decides? That's the fundamental question. Who gets to make the call? Is it the guy whose
00:09name was on the ballot or is it some bureaucrat? Is it the guy who got 77 million votes or some
00:16district judge? The left always says trust the bureaucrat, trust the judge. It's the Fauci's,
00:22it's the Bozberg's who get to make the call. After all, they're the experts. They're smarter
00:29than we the people. They're smarter than all us hillbillies in flyover country who voted
00:34for President Trump. Trust them. That's not how it works. We the people have the power.
00:42You know what's interesting? For all the left's talk about democracy, they don't really trust it.
00:48Last summer, they kicked their nominee off the ballot without a vote, without an election,
00:52and they put someone else on the ballot without a vote, without an election. So of course they,
00:58like some judge, issuing orders or injunctions that stopped the head of the executive branch
01:03from doing what he said he was going to do when he ran for the job and when the American people
01:07elected him. Think about it. Here in D.C., an elected judge thinks he's better equipped to
01:15determine military readiness than the commander in chief. An unelected judge in California thinks he
01:21gets to decide how many probationary employees work in the executive branch, not the guy who
01:28was elected to run the executive branch. Another unelected federal district judge here in D.C.
01:35thinks he gets to decide how long illegal gang member terrorists stay in our country,
01:42not the president, not the commander in chief. And now that same judge gets randomly assigned,
01:49randomly assigned the Hegseth case, and he'll get to determine who the secretary of defense
01:54can talk to and how he has to do it, not the president. I think Americans see through this all.
02:02They know Representative Issa's legislation is exactly what's needed. They know who they
02:06elected, and they want him to make decisions that affect the executive branch, that affect our
02:09country. So I want to thank our chairman, Mr. Issa, and Mr. Roy for this hearing. I want to thank Mr.
02:14Issa for his bill. Mr. Schmidt, a member of our committee, who we put an amendment, his amendment
02:19on that bill, which I think makes it even stronger. We passed that legislation four weeks ago. It's
02:24going to be on the going to be on the floor tomorrow. It's going to pass the House. I want
02:27to thank our witnesses for being here. Ms. Romero, what you've went through. Thank you for coming.
02:32And of course, Speaker Gingrich, for your half a century of service to the Constitution,
02:38the country. Thank you for joining us. That is the question, though. Who decides?
02:43The individuals that we, the people elect, or someone else? I yield back.
02:49Gentleman yields back. We now recognize the ranking member of the full committee,
02:52the gentleman from Maryland, Mr. Rossi.
02:57Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman.