Tom Cotton asks Supreme Court to 'rein in' rogue judges as courts appear more polarized

Republican Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton on Sunday called for the Supreme Court to "rein in" rogue federal judges that have intervened with President Donald Trump's executive orders, claiming they will get more polarized if they are not stopped. 

Several lawmakers have introduced legislation recently that seeks to curb rogue judges, after multiple federal judges issued nationwide injunctions on some of Trump's agenda, instead of focusing on the people in the specific case. 

One recent case of alleged judicial overreach comes after District Judge Paula Xinis in Maryland ordered the Trump administration to “facilitate and effectuate” the return of Salvadoran migrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was deported back to El Salvador for allegedly being a member of the violent gang MS-13.

“This far-left Obama judge in Maryland is now demanding the president somehow sit down with a foreign leader and come to terms to return an MS-13 wife-beater,” Cotton told Fox News. “This judge has no authority to intervene in the president’s conduct of foreign policy. Even the Supreme Court said that she didn’t have that kind of authority."

The Supreme Court intervened in the case earlier this month, where it ruled Xinis may have exceeded her authority by saying that the administration had to "effectuate" Abrego Garcia's return instead of just "facilitate" it, and ordered her to clarify the order. She has not ruled on the order since.

Cotton, who cosponsored Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley's bill to rein in the judges, urged the highest court to intervene because he claimed the judges were allegedly acting more like policymakers than "neutral jurists."

“A lot of these liberal judges, they love the limelight, they get tired of presiding over contract disputes or minor drug cases, so rather, they want to insert themselves into the conduct of foreign policy or stopping administrative action that applies not just in their own states but in the entire country,” Cotton said. “The Supreme Court needs to take steps to rein in these rogue federal judges that want to be policymakers as opposed to neutral jurists.”

The comment also comes after the House last month created a judicial task force that will investigate the "rogue, activist judges." The task force will be led by Republican Reps. Andrew Clyde of Georgia and Eli Crane of Arizona.

Misty Severi is a news reporter for Just The News. You can follow her on X for more coverage.