Rogue Judges and Nationwide Injunctions

Case in Point: The Legal Show on the Hottest Legal Cases in Politics and Culture

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🗓️ 24 April 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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This week’s special guest is former Speaker of the House, historian, and author Newt Gingrich. We discuss his recent testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on “Judicial Overreach” as well as his historical perspective on the battles we are seeing in the nation’s courts. With a classic movie review of “Seven Days in May,” the 1964 Frankenheimer film about a secret plan to take over the government and depose the president during the Cold War.

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0:00.0	Right is still right, even if you stand by yourself.
0:04.0	Mr. Chief Justice, may it place the court.
0:08.0	This is Hans von Schenkovsky, and this is another case in point.
0:11.0	Today we're going to be talking about rogue judges and nationwide injunctions.
0:16.0	And the entire history of the United States has only been a little under 150 injunctions, permanent or nationwide injunctions issued, although that number has been rapidly increasing in the last three months.
0:30.5	Before the early 1960s, nationwide injunctions were virtually unknown.
0:36.9	Of that, a little under 150 nationwide injunctions,
0:40.3	about half of them have been issued against President Donald Trump in his administration
0:46.3	in the first term and now in the second term. This has been of such concern that the House Judiciary
0:53.3	Committee, Jim Jordan is a chairman,
0:56.7	he recently held a hearing on this on April 1st. I'm sure it was a coincidence that it was April Fool's Day.
1:04.2	But in addition to my colleague, Paul Larkin, one of the other witnesses was Newt Gingrich, Speaker of the House,
1:15.5	Professor Gengridge, Representative Gengrich.
1:19.3	Newt, I'm not quite sure which title I should use for you.
1:24.2	But Newt Gengrich, of course, is well known to Americans. He helped engineer the 1994
1:35.5	GOP revolution that took control of the House of Representatives for the first time in 40 years.
1:41.9	He obviously is also a professor of history, And, Newt, I was trying to count up
1:48.7	all the books that you have written on history, politics, and a whole series of fictional books
1:55.7	about the American Civil War. And I lost count because you are such a prolific writer.
2:02.6	But I want to welcome you here today and thank you.
2:05.6	I'm delighted to be here, as you know, I'm a big fan of your work on election reform.
2:10.9	And I'm a big fan of Heritage.
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