Limiting the power of federal judges is a pet issue that President Trump has seized on as his administration faces a litany of lawsuits since he took office.

The House is readying to vote on a bill to limit district judges' ability to block President Donald Trump's policies nationwide.

Republicans have taken up Trump's demand to limit the power of judges after the president faced several preliminary losses to begin his second term.

Federal judges in New York and Texas on Wednesday issued orders to temporarily halt the deportation of Venezuelan plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act – a wartime authority the administration has invoked to deport alleged gang members without due process.

A federal judge in New York and another in Texas have temporarily blocked the deportation of several purported Venezuelan gang members under the Alien Enemies Act.

Attorney General Pam Bondi relied on an increasingly common assertion: that the judge was “unelected” and denying the will of voters who put the president in office.