Unelected left-leaning trial court judges have become a constitutional crisis by trying to set policy for the entire nation, thanks to a conscious, coordinated campaign by the left, says Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley.

His “Nationwide Injunction Abuse Prevent Act of 2025” would prevent federal district judges from crippling the country with injunctions that apply nationwide and block a president’s every move. Instead, the bill would make clear a judge’s injunction only applies to the parties involved or to the judge’s bailiwick.

In at least one case, that of some 16,000 probationary employees the Trump administration let go, a judge ordered them reinstated – in a lawsuit filed by third-party organizations, not even by the workers themselves.

Aren’t judges supposed to first look at whether the suing party has standing – and then whether the judge himself has jurisdiction?

“Correct,” says Hawley, a constitutional lawyer and former Missouri attorney general, in an exclusive interview Thursday with The Heartlander. “And they’re not supposed to be able to bind parties who aren’t before the court. That is a basic element of jurisdiction. You’re a district court. That means you have a limited geographic scope. Only one court can decide cases on behalf of the whole nation; that’s the Supreme Court. 

“Instead, what we have are district court judges, hundreds of them, who want to set national policy. They can’t do that under the Constitution. That’s not what a district court does. My legislation would make that clear. It’s an even-handed rule. No national injunctions by district courts.”

Hawley’s bill, according to his office, would:

• Ban nationwide injunctions by district court judges.
• Clarify that a district judge’s order only applies to the parties in the case, or within the local judicial district—not to the entire nation.
• Empower the Executive Branch to effectively pursue a national policy agenda without unreasonable obstruction.

“Unelected district judges are usurping the authority of a duly-elected president and dictating national policy for 330 million Americans,” Hawley said in a press release. “Congress must stop this unconstitutional weaponization of the judiciary. My bill would be a critical step toward doing just that.”

Hawley counts over five dozen injunctions against Trump in his first term, and 15 in February of this year alone.

It’s neither random nor coincidence, but a coordinated attack campaign by the far left to slow or block President Trump’s popular agenda, he says.

“Yeah, 100%. Yeah, of course they are. They’re absolutely coordinated. They’re funded by the left. They’re funded by Soros and his allies. 

“Listen, in the first Trump term, we had 64 of these suits – 64 separate national injunctions by district courts. It is incredibly abusive, and I would just say it’s a constitutional crisis. I mean, our constitutional system cannot function if every individual district court is going to try to set policy for the nation.

“That’s like having hundreds of individual supreme courts all at odds with one another. You cannot run a government that way. We have to stop this.”

Biden censorship “complex” hearing

Hawley participated Tuesday in a historic Senate hearing, chaired by fellow Missouri Sen. Eric Schmitt, on what the latter has called a “Vast Censorship Enterprise” under President Biden.

Schmitt said in his opening remarks that he discovered the Biden censorship of conservatives online was actually “an even larger and more formidable censorship-industrial complex that spans from our nation across the Western world.”

Will anyone ultimately be held accountable for it?

“Well, I tell you what needs to happen,” Hawley tells The Heartlander, “is Facebook and Google, these huge behemoths who actively and avidly cooperated with the government, censored with the government, they need to be broken up. Their power needs to be taken away. And we need to give consumers the right to sue them. 

“If you got kicked off of Facebook because of your political views, that’s a violation of their terms of service, because they say in their terms of service they don’t discriminate based on political views. And yet, we know for a fact that they do. 

“I tell you what would cure that real fast is if the people who got kicked off could go to court and sue them. They’d stop that censorship, and they wouldn’t just stop it temporarily. They’d stop it once and for all, or else they’d face a jury verdict of, like, a billion dollars. 

“We need to hold these guys accountable. I don’t believe a word they say when they say, ‘Oh, we’ve reformed our behavior. We’re so much better now.’ Oh, no, they haven’t. They’re just waiting for their next opportunity. These guys are bad news, these tech companies, these tech overlords, and we need to take away their power.”

What should happen now?

Will anything come of the hearing?

“Well, I hope it’s passing legislation,” Hawley says.

“I think we’ve got a good sense of what’s going on in terms of what happened. We all know that Facebook censored the Hunter Biden story. We all know that Facebook took down the statements of parents who had questions about the vaccine. We all know that they deplatformed conservatives. Google has done the same thing. 

“These people now need to be held accountable. We need to pass legislation that will put power back into the hands of those who were censored. Allow them to get into court, allow them to hold these people accountable. Allow them to get damages. 

“I tell you what, if you’ve been censored and you can soon get damages, these companies will change their tune real quick.”

Missouri energy issues

In separate matters involving Missouri energy, Hawley says he hopes the Biden administration’s proposed mammoth “Grain Belt Express” electric transmission line corridor will be axed – and he will soon host U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to show him the negligently stored and leaching WWII-era nuclear waste in the St. Louis region.

The Grain Belt project is a proposed five-mile-wide electric transmission corridor crossing half of Kansas and all of Missouri – a swath of land to be expropriated that is larger than a tornado could flatten.

Most Missouri residents probably have no idea about the proposal.

“Oh, I think a lot of Missouri farmers do,” Hawley argues. “Missouri farmers know all about it, and I hope the Grain Belt Express is canceled ASAP. 

“This is a Green New Deal boondoggle. This is a private corporation that, with the power of the government, took farmers’ land. They want to build green, so-called, transmission lines across the middle of our state. Missouri gets nothing out of it. 

“And yet, they also want to get subsidized to the tune of $5 billion taxpayer dollars. It’s absurd. I’ve asked the Department of Energy to cancel that $5 billion subsidy. I want to see the whole project get canceled. We don’t need Green New Deal garbage. We need good, reliable, American, Missouri energy. That’s what we need, not this.”

RFK Jr. accepts Hawley invite to Missouri

As for the nuclear waste left over from the development of the atom bomb, Hawley announced Wednesday that RFK Jr. has accepted his invitation to tour the region affected on an undetermined date.

“Delighted to say that today, at my invitation, @RobertKennedyJr agreed to come to Missouri to see firsthand the sites where the government dumped nuclear waste in St. Louis,” Hawley posted on X, “and the lives that have been ruined because of it. It is time to compensate these good people NOW #MAHA.”

After the House’s failure last year to reauthorize and expand the now-expired 1990 Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) that provided aid to continued victims of the radiation, Hawley – the fund’s most prominent champion – recently brought Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin to the area.

What does Hawley hope to accomplish in bringing RFK Jr. in?

“Oh, I hope to show and to shine a light on what’s happened in St. Louis and Missouri – the federal government’s dumping of nuclear radioactive waste, their total negligence, the fact they poisoned generations of Missourians, and in typical government fashion won’t take any responsibility for it. Saying, ‘Ah, that’s somebody else’s problem.’ 

“I’m delighted that RFK wants to Make America Healthy Again. Let’s start in Missouri. Let’s start in the St. Louis area. Let’s start with the people who have been poisoned for years by this nuclear radiation. 

“Let’s clean it up. Let’s get them compensated for what the government did. And let’s begin a new era in our history.”