Politico reporter Josh Gerstein writes that former Pam Bondi Chief of Staff and Stephen Miller ally Chad Mizelle wants Congress to declare war on judges who make decisions against President Donald Trump’s policies.
Mizelle, who announced his departure as Department of Justice chief of staff in September, urged congressional Republicans to step up campaigns to impeach federal judges who've blocked Trump policies.
“What’s going to force the Supreme Courtto do something is fundamentally political pressure. It’s going to be when Congress starts impeaching judges and saying … ‘You are now encroaching into our territory,’” Mizelle said during a panel discussion at the Federalist Society’s annual lawyers’ meeting in Washington.
“This is a problem of leftist politics,” said Mizelle, arguing that earlier Republican administrations did not face as many decisions blocking their policies. George Bush, he said, had six injunctions against him, while Obama had 12. Trump endured 64 injunctions in his first administration compared to Biden’s 14 — and with 40 issued in the first six months of Trump’s second administration.
“Since 1963 over three quarters of injunctions were issued against Trump,” argued Mizelle, arguing that the Supreme Court has given Trump a “92 percent win rate” for petitions it filed with the Supreme Court, compared to Biden’s win rate of only 50 percent.
But Gerstein reports Mizelle “turned heads” at the conference by calling for Congress to step up efforts to impeach judges who have blocked Trump policies, and his “impeachment battle cry”followed a “cryptic story” he shared that appeared to involve an implicit threat his father once issued to put down a stray cat in the family’s yard.
“What do I think [Trump] should do?He should stand up, and he’s already done this, and say, ‘Judges, I know how to deal with stray cats,’” said Mizelle, who described his father's threat to put down the cat as indicative of having a "father from Mississippi."