Issue Position: Less Powerful Judges

Issue Position

By: Chip Roy
By: Chip Roy
Date: Jan. 1, 2020
Issues: Judicial Branch

Judges and bureaucrats are unelected. Judges and bureaucrats have too much power. Each are deciding too many issues that are personal and/or should be decided through our representatives. That must stop. It can stop by reasserting the Article I powers of Congress to make the important decisions of the people rather than punting to the Judiciary or bureaucrats (to whom the judiciary too often is deferring). It can stop by limiting the reach of the Judiciary, considering impeachment where appropriate, and/or limiting their tenures. It can stop by ending the absurd "deep state" protections of federal bureaucrats, and empower elected officials to remove them. But stop it must. Judges should interpret the law and follow the Constitution, not legislate from the bench -- and bureaucrats should be fewer in number and should follow the direction of elected officials.


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