[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 64 (Wednesday, April 9, 2025)]
[House]
[Pages H1550-H1552]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
NO ROGUE RULINGS ACT OF 2025
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 1(c) of rule XIX, further
consideration of the bill (H.R. 1526) to amend title 28, United States
Code, to limit the authority of district courts to provide injunctive
relief, and for other purposes, will now resume.
The Clerk read the title of the bill.
Motion to Recommit
Ms. ROSS. Mr. Speaker, I have a motion to recommit at the desk.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to
recommit.
The Clerk read as follows:
Ms. Ross of North Carolina moves to recommit the bill H.R.
1526 to the Committee on the Judiciary.
The material previously referred to by Ms. Ross is as follows:
Ms. Ross moves to recommit the bill H.R. 1526 to the
Committee on the Judiciary with instructions to report the
same back to the House forthwith, with the following
amendment:
Page 3, strike line 3 and all that follows and insert the
following:
SECTION 1. FINDINGS.
Congress finds the following:
(1) The Chief Justice has warned of a ``significant
uptick'' in violence and threats against Federal judges,
noting that, according to the United States Marshals Service,
``the volume of hostile threats and communications directed
at judges has more than tripled over the past decade'' and
that `` ``[i]n the past five years alone, the Marshals report
that they have investigated more than 1,000 serious threats
against federal judges''.
(2) The President of the American Bar Association President
has likewise sounded the alarm, reporting that ``[s]erious
threats against [federal] judges have doubled since 2019,
with 457 serious threats targeting federal judges across the
country in 2023'' alone.
(3) Federal judges have been forced to speak out in their
own defense, pleading with public officials to realize that
``there are lives at stake'', that they ``feel like people
are playing Russian roulette with our lives'', and that
``[t]hreats against judges are threats against constitutional
government'' and that ``[e]veryone should be taking this
seriously''.
(4) Threats against Federal judges have grown so severe
that some have been issued bulletproof vests, assigned full-
time security details, and forced to install home security
systems to protect themselves and their families.
(5) These threats have included doxing of judges and their
families' personal information, anonymous deliveries to their
homes intended to intimidate, bomb threats targeting the
families of Supreme Court justices, online calls for judges
to be ``hanged'' or ``beheaded'', as well as the 2020 murder
of the 20-year-old son of a Federal judge by an armed
assailant who targeted her family.
(6) Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. has explicitly
warned that ``violence, intimidation, and defiance directed
at judges because of their work undermine our Republic, and
are wholly unacceptable'', and further cautioned that
``public officials... have engaged in recent attempts to
intimidate judges--for example, suggesting political bias in
the judge's adverse rulings without a credible basis for such
allegations'', and that ``intemperance in their statements
when it comes to judges may prompt dangerous reactions by
others''.
(7) The American Bar Association has condemned these
attacks, warning that such rhetoric ``threatens the very
fabric of our democracy--judicial independence and the rule
of law'', and further noting that high-ranking government
officials have ``made repeated calls for the impeachment of
judges who issue opinions with which the government does not
agree'', turning partisan grievance into dangerous attempts
to undermine the courts.
(8) This escalating climate of intimidation has been fueled
by public officials and political figures who irresponsibly
target judges for partisan purposes.
(9) Former President Donald Trump has repeatedly attacked
the legitimacy of federal judges, publicly calling for their
impeachment simply because he disagreed with their rulings,
referring to one as a ``Radical Left Lunatic of a Judge'',
and a ``troublemaker and agitator'', and calling others
``Crooked Judges'' and prompting an online wave of threats
and harassment against judges and their families.
(10) Tech billionaire and political ally of President
Trump, Elon Musk, has engaged in a sustained public campaign
to delegitimize the federal judiciary, describing judges as
``corrupt'', ``radical'', and ``evil'', accusing them of
``TYRANNY of the JUDICIARY'', and declaring that ``the only
way to restore rule of the people in America is to impeach
judges''.
(11) Members of Congress have escalated hostile rhetoric
toward Federal judges, introducing multiple resolutions to
impeach judges based solely on their rulings and publicly
accusing them of being ``radical activists'', ``corrupt
political operatives'', and ``partisan activists weaponizing
our judicial system'', rhetoric that the Chief Justice has
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warned may prompt dangerous reactions by others.
(12) Threats stemming from an increasingly hostile and
politicized climate have caused the federal judiciary to
create a new Judicial Security and Independence Task Force to
help the judicial branch ``identify'' and ``respond to
current risks, and anticipate new ones'' and ``through its
efforts, it is hoped that the security of individual judges
will be enhanced and that judicial independence will be
assured''.
(13) Our nation's founders enshrined an independent
judiciary in Article III of the Constitution to ensure that
judges would be free to rule impartially, without fear of
political retribution or personal harm.
(14) No public servant--whether in the White House, the
halls of Congress, or on the bench--should face violence,
threats, or intimidation because of their service to the
American people.
SEC. 2. SENSE OF CONGRESS.
It is the sense of Congress that--
(1) all forms of violence, threats, intimidation, or
harassment directed at judges, court personnel, and their
families, including public rhetoric that undermines the
legitimacy or independence of the judiciary should be
condemned;
(2) an independent judiciary, free from political
interference and personal threats, is essential to the rule
of law and the constitutional separation of powers;
(3) all public officials should refrain from engaging in
rhetoric or actions that could endanger the safety of judges
or erode public confidence in the judiciary; and
(4) efforts to improve judicial security, including the
provision of adequate resources, protections, and privacy
safeguards necessary to ensure that judges, their staff, and
their families can safely carry out their constitutional
duties should be supported.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 2(b) of rule XIX, the
previous question is ordered on the motion to recommit.
The question is on the motion to recommit.
The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that
the noes appeared to have it.
Ms. ROSS. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.
The yeas and nays were ordered.
Announcement by the Speaker Pro Tempore
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XX, this 15-
minute vote on the motion to recommit will be followed by 5-minute
votes on:
Passage of the bill, if ordered;
Concurring in the Senate amendment to H. Con. Res. 14, if ordered;
and
The motion to suspend the rules and pass H.R. 1228, if ordered.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 212,
nays 217, not voting 4, as follows:
[Roll No. 97]
YEAS--212
Adams
Aguilar
Amo
Ansari
Auchincloss
Balint
Barragan
Beatty
Bell
Bera
Beyer
Bishop
Bonamici
Boyle (PA)
Brown
Brownley
Budzinski
Bynum
Carbajal
Carson
Carter (LA)
Casar
Case
Casten
Castor (FL)
Castro (TX)
Cherfilus-McCormick
Chu
Cisneros
Clark (MA)
Clarke (NY)
Cleaver
Clyburn
Cohen
Conaway
Connolly
Correa
Costa
Courtney
Craig
Crockett
Crow
Cuellar
Davids (KS)
Davis (IL)
Davis (NC)
Dean (PA)
DeGette
DeLauro
DelBene
Deluzio
DeSaulnier
Dexter
Dingell
Doggett
Elfreth
Escobar
Espaillat
Evans (PA)
Fields
Figures
Fletcher
Foster
Foushee
Frankel, Lois
Friedman
Frost
Garamendi
Garcia (CA)
Garcia (IL)
Garcia (TX)
Gillen
Golden (ME)
Goldman (NY)
Gomez
Gonzalez, V.
Goodlander
Gottheimer
Gray
Green, Al (TX)
Harder (CA)
Hayes
Himes
Horsford
Houlahan
Hoyer
Hoyle (OR)
Huffman
Ivey
Jackson (IL)
Jacobs
Jayapal
Jeffries
Johnson (GA)
Johnson (TX)
Kamlager-Dove
Kaptur
Keating
Kelly (IL)
Kennedy (NY)
Khanna
Krishnamoorthi
Landsman
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Latimer
Lee (NV)
Lee (PA)
Leger Fernandez
Levin
Liccardo
Lieu
Lofgren
Lynch
Magaziner
Mannion
Matsui
McBath
McBride
McClain Delaney
McClellan
McCollum
McDonald Rivet
McGarvey
McGovern
McIver
Meeks
Menendez
Meng
Mfume
Min
Moore (WI)
Morelle
Morrison
Moskowitz
Moulton
Mrvan
Mullin
Nadler
Neal
Neguse
Ocasio-Cortez
Olszewski
Omar
Pallone
Panetta
Pappas
Pelosi
Perez
Peters
Pettersen
Pingree
Pocan
Pou
Pressley
Quigley
Ramirez
Randall
Raskin
Riley (NY)
Rivas
Ross
Ruiz
Ryan
Salinas
Sanchez
Scanlon
Schakowsky
Schneider
Scholten
Schrier
Scott (VA)
Scott, David
Sewell
Sherman
Sherrill
Simon
Smith (WA)
Sorensen
Soto
Stansbury
Stanton
Stevens
Strickland
Subramanyam
Suozzi
Swalwell
Sykes
Takano
Thanedar
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Titus
Tlaib
Tokuda
Tonko
Torres (CA)
Torres (NY)
Trahan
Tran
Underwood
Vargas
Vasquez
Veasey
Velazquez
Vindman
Wasserman Schultz
Waters
Watson Coleman
Whitesides
Williams (GA)
Wilson (FL)
NAYS--217
Aderholt
Alford
Allen
Amodei (NV)
Arrington
Babin
Bacon
Baird
Balderson
Barr
Barrett
Baumgartner
Bean (FL)
Begich
Bentz
Bergman
Bice
Biggs (SC)
Bilirakis
Boebert
Bost
Brecheen
Bresnahan
Buchanan
Burchett
Burlison
Calvert
Cammack
Carey
Carter (GA)
Carter (TX)
Ciscomani
Cline
Cloud
Clyde
Cole
Collins
Comer
Crane
Crank
Crawford
Crenshaw
Davidson
De La Cruz
DesJarlais
Diaz-Balart
Donalds
Downing
Dunn (FL)
Edwards
Ellzey
Emmer
Estes
Evans (CO)
Ezell
Fallon
Fedorchak
Feenstra
Fine
Finstad
Fischbach
Fitzgerald
Fitzpatrick
Fleischmann
Flood
Fong
Foxx
Franklin, Scott
Fry
Fulcher
Garbarino
Gill (TX)
Gimenez
Goldman (TX)
Gonzales, Tony
Gooden
Gosar
Graves
Green (TN)
Greene (GA)
Griffith
Grothman
Guest
Guthrie
Hageman
Hamadeh (AZ)
Haridopolos
Harrigan
Harris (MD)
Harris (NC)
Harshbarger
Hern (OK)
Higgins (LA)
Hill (AR)
Hinson
Houchin
Hudson
Huizenga
Hunt
Hurd (CO)
Issa
Jack
Jackson (TX)
James
Johnson (LA)
Johnson (SD)
Jordan
Joyce (OH)
Joyce (PA)
Kean
Kelly (MS)
Kelly (PA)
Kennedy (UT)
Kiggans (VA)
Kiley (CA)
Kim
Knott
Kustoff
LaHood
LaLota
LaMalfa
Langworthy
Latta
Lawler
Lee (FL)
Letlow
Loudermilk
Lucas
Luna
Luttrell
Mace
Mackenzie
Malliotakis
Maloy
Mann
Massie
Mast
McCaul
McClain
McClintock
McCormick
McDowell
McGuire
Messmer
Meuser
Miller (IL)
Miller (OH)
Miller (WV)
Miller-Meeks
Mills
Moolenaar
Moore (AL)
Moore (NC)
Moore (UT)
Moore (WV)
Moran
Murphy
Nehls
Newhouse
Norman
Nunn (IA)
Obernolte
Ogles
Onder
Owens
Palmer
Patronis
Perry
Pfluger
Reschenthaler
Rogers (KY)
Rose
Rouzer
Roy
Rulli
Rutherford
Salazar
Scalise
Schmidt
Schweikert
Scott, Austin
Self
Sessions
Shreve
Simpson
Smith (MO)
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smucker
Spartz
Stauber
Steil
Steube
Strong
Stutzman
Taylor
Tenney
Thompson (PA)
Tiffany
Timmons
Turner (OH)
Valadao
Van Drew
Van Duyne
Van Orden
Wagner
Walberg
Weber (TX)
Webster (FL)
Westerman
Wied
Williams (TX)
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Womack
Yakym
Zinke
NOT VOTING--4
Biggs (AZ)
Norcross
Rogers (AL)
Stefanik
{time} 1841
Mr. BEGICH, Mrs. LUNA, Messrs. ELLZEY, FITZPATRICK, ALLEN, GRAVES,
McGUIRE, SHREVE, OWENS, SMITH of Missouri, RUTHERFORD, OBERNOLTE, and
McCORMICK changed their vote from ``yea'' to ``nay.''
Messrs. MOSKOWITZ, CONNOLLY, MEEKS, Ms. CASTOR of Florida, Mr. COSTA,
Ms. LEE of Nevada, Messrs. JACKSON of Illinois, PANETTA, KEATING,
MRVAN, and Ms. SCHAKOWSKY changed their vote from ``nay'' to ``yea.''
So the motion to recommit was rejected.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the passage of the bill.
The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that
the ayes appeared to have it.
Mr. RASKIN. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.
The yeas and nays were ordered. This is a 5-minute vote.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 219,
nays 213, not voting 1, as follows:
[Roll No. 98]
YEAS--219
Aderholt
Alford
Allen
Amodei (NV)
Arrington
Babin
Bacon
Baird
Balderson
Barr
Barrett
Baumgartner
Bean (FL)
Begich
Bentz
Bergman
Bice
Biggs (AZ)
Biggs (SC)
Bilirakis
Boebert
Bost
Brecheen
Bresnahan
Buchanan
Burchett
Burlison
Calvert
Cammack
Carey
Carter (GA)
Carter (TX)
Ciscomani
Cline
Cloud
Clyde
Cole
Collins
Comer
Crane
Crank
Crawford
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Crenshaw
Davidson
De La Cruz
DesJarlais
Diaz-Balart
Donalds
Downing
Dunn (FL)
Edwards
Ellzey
Emmer
Estes
Evans (CO)
Ezell
Fallon
Fedorchak
Feenstra
Fine
Finstad
Fischbach
Fitzgerald
Fitzpatrick
Fleischmann
Flood
Fong
Foxx
Franklin, Scott
Fry
Fulcher
Garbarino
Gill (TX)
Gimenez
Goldman (TX)
Gonzales, Tony
Gooden
Gosar
Graves
Green (TN)
Greene (GA)
Griffith
Grothman
Guest
Guthrie
Hageman
Hamadeh (AZ)
Haridopolos
Harrigan
Harris (MD)
Harris (NC)
Harshbarger
Hern (OK)
Higgins (LA)
Hill (AR)
Hinson
Houchin
Hudson
Huizenga
Hunt
Hurd (CO)
Issa
Jack
Jackson (TX)
James
Johnson (LA)
Johnson (SD)
Jordan
Joyce (OH)
Joyce (PA)
Kean
Kelly (MS)
Kelly (PA)
Kennedy (UT)
Kiggans (VA)
Kiley (CA)
Kim
Knott
Kustoff
LaHood
LaLota
LaMalfa
Langworthy
Latta
Lawler
Lee (FL)
Letlow
Loudermilk
Lucas
Luna
Luttrell
Mace
Mackenzie
Malliotakis
Maloy
Mann
Massie
Mast
McCaul
McClain
McClintock
McCormick
McDowell
McGuire
Messmer
Meuser
Miller (IL)
Miller (OH)
Miller (WV)
Miller-Meeks
Mills
Moolenaar
Moore (AL)
Moore (NC)
Moore (UT)
Moore (WV)
Moran
Murphy
Nehls
Newhouse
Norman
Nunn (IA)
Obernolte
Ogles
Onder
Owens
Palmer
Patronis
Perry
Pfluger
Reschenthaler
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rose
Rouzer
Roy
Rulli
Rutherford
Salazar
Scalise
Schmidt
Schweikert
Scott, Austin
Self
Sessions
Shreve
Simpson
Smith (MO)
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smucker
Spartz
Stauber
Stefanik
Steil
Steube
Strong
Stutzman
Taylor
Tenney
Thompson (PA)
Tiffany
Timmons
Valadao
Van Drew
Van Duyne
Van Orden
Wagner
Walberg
Weber (TX)
Webster (FL)
Westerman
Wied
Williams (TX)
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Womack
Yakym
Zinke
NAYS--213
Adams
Aguilar
Amo
Ansari
Auchincloss
Balint
Barragan
Beatty
Bell
Bera
Beyer
Bishop
Bonamici
Boyle (PA)
Brown
Brownley
Budzinski
Bynum
Carbajal
Carson
Carter (LA)
Casar
Case
Casten
Castor (FL)
Castro (TX)
Cherfilus-McCormick
Chu
Cisneros
Clark (MA)
Clarke (NY)
Cleaver
Clyburn
Cohen
Conaway
Connolly
Correa
Costa
Courtney
Craig
Crockett
Crow
Cuellar
Davids (KS)
Davis (IL)
Davis (NC)
Dean (PA)
DeGette
DeLauro
DelBene
Deluzio
DeSaulnier
Dexter
Dingell
Doggett
Elfreth
Escobar
Espaillat
Evans (PA)
Fields
Figures
Fletcher
Foster
Foushee
Frankel, Lois
Friedman
Frost
Garamendi
Garcia (CA)
Garcia (IL)
Garcia (TX)
Gillen
Golden (ME)
Goldman (NY)
Gomez
Gonzalez, V.
Goodlander
Gottheimer
Gray
Green, Al (TX)
Harder (CA)
Hayes
Himes
Horsford
Houlahan
Hoyer
Hoyle (OR)
Huffman
Ivey
Jackson (IL)
Jacobs
Jayapal
Jeffries
Johnson (GA)
Johnson (TX)
Kamlager-Dove
Kaptur
Keating
Kelly (IL)
Kennedy (NY)
Khanna
Krishnamoorthi
Landsman
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Latimer
Lee (NV)
Lee (PA)
Leger Fernandez
Levin
Liccardo
Lieu
Lofgren
Lynch
Magaziner
Mannion
Matsui
McBath
McBride
McClain Delaney
McClellan
McCollum
McDonald Rivet
McGarvey
McGovern
McIver
Meeks
Menendez
Meng
Mfume
Min
Moore (WI)
Morelle
Morrison
Moskowitz
Moulton
Mrvan
Mullin
Nadler
Neal
Neguse
Ocasio-Cortez
Olszewski
Omar
Pallone
Panetta
Pappas
Pelosi
Perez
Peters
Pettersen
Pingree
Pocan
Pou
Pressley
Quigley
Ramirez
Randall
Raskin
Riley (NY)
Rivas
Ross
Ruiz
Ryan
Salinas
Sanchez
Scanlon
Schakowsky
Schneider
Scholten
Schrier
Scott (VA)
Scott, David
Sewell
Sherman
Sherrill
Simon
Smith (WA)
Sorensen
Soto
Stansbury
Stanton
Stevens
Strickland
Subramanyam
Suozzi
Swalwell
Sykes
Takano
Thanedar
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Titus
Tlaib
Tokuda
Tonko
Torres (CA)
Torres (NY)
Trahan
Tran
Turner (OH)
Underwood
Vargas
Vasquez
Veasey
Velazquez
Vindman
Wasserman Schultz
Waters
Watson Coleman
Whitesides
Williams (GA)
Wilson (FL)
NOT VOTING--1
Norcross
Announcement by the Speaker Pro Tempore
The SPEAKER pro tempore (during the vote). There are 2 minutes
remaining.
{time} 2003
Mr. NEWHOUSE changed his vote from ``nay'' to ``yea.''
So the bill was passed.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.
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