Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has once again suggested that it’s time for Congress to strip rogue judges of their supposed authority.
The latest suggestion came after Daniel Horowitz of TheBlaze posted a tweet calling for congressional Republicans to add a measure to the “Big, Beautiful Bill” that would pre-empt certain state gun laws.
“If the GOP can put measures in the BBB that aren’t budget related but pre-empt states from passing regulation on AI, and allowing land grabs for carbon capture pipelines, why can’t the GOP just pass a federal pre-emption on state gun laws that contradict Heller, McDonald, Bruen, etc, and any sort of ban on guns or gun accessories that are not already prohibited by federal law?” he wrote.
DeSantis responded shortly thereafter on Wednesday by suggesting that the same principle be applied to rogue judges.
And add provisions stripping courts of jurisdiction over issues like immigration so district judges can’t constantly throw sand in the gears of the Trump deportation efforts.
This would also make the additional funds for interior enforcement and border security far more… https://t.co/hvyQZDwfAj
— Ron DeSantis (@RonDeSantis) June 4, 2025
He specifically called for adding to the BBB “provisions stripping courts of jurisdiction over issues like immigration.”
“[A]dd provisions stripping courts of jurisdiction over issues like immigration so district judges can’t constantly throw sand in the gears of the Trump deportation efforts,” he wrote. “This would also make the additional funds for interior enforcement and border security far more effective.”
This prompted pushback from a self-professed “super genius” who scoffingly claimed that Congress can’t “strip the Judicial branch of their Constitutional authority.”
DeSantis quickly fired back by reminding the “super genius” that Congress sure as hell can.
Look:
Well, a “dipsh- -“ that has read Article III, Section 2 of the Constitution, which gives Congress the authority to make “exceptions” to the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court (and by extension limit the jurisdiction of the lower federal courts, which are creatures of… https://t.co/atlj8xWdUm
— Ron DeSantis (@RonDeSantis) June 4, 2025
DeSantis explained that “Article III, Section 2 of the Constitution … gives Congress the authority to make ‘exceptions’ to the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court (and by extension limit the jurisdiction of the lower federal courts, which are creatures of statute).”
This isn’t the first time the governor has pushed this idea.
“Congress has the authority to strip jurisdiction of the federal courts to decide these cases in the first place,” he tweeted in March after Judge James E. Boasberg ruled that the Trump administration’s deportation of illegal alien gang bangers to an El Salvadorian prison was illegal.
“The sabotaging of President Trump’s agenda by ‘resistance’ judges was predictable — why no jurisdiction-stripping bills tee’d up at the onset of this Congress?” he added.
He doubled down days later while speaking at New College of Florida.
“When Thomas Jefferson became President, they’d have problems with judges,” he said, according to Florida Politics. “They just eliminated these judgeships that they had problems with.”
“Other than the Supreme Court, none of the other courts even exist as a matter of constitutional right. That’s purely the discretion of Congress to create and then set the jurisdiction,” he added.
Conservatives have responded very positively to DeSantis’ ideas, including his latest tweet posted Wednesday.
Case in point:
This is why DeSantis is the GOAT.
— Mar_c_ah (@mar_c_ah) June 4, 2025
Shift funds from the courts to immigration enforcement. Kill two birds with one stone.
— Scott Hickey (@skybotthybick) June 4, 2025
@GovRonDeSantis how can we keep you fighting for the nation? We must have you as powerful as possible.
— Animal Farm (@BeCuriousCo) June 5, 2025
This is why I’d love to see DeSantis in the SCOTUS.
The courtroom and constitution are the new battlegrounds and no one is better than him there.
— Robert J Salvador (@RobertJSalvador) June 5, 2025
Hell yeah…I have been suggesting something like change of venue to back to the military courts for months and citing the lack of proper jurisdiction for many of the EO’s in general from these district court judges over the nation and people not party to the case before them…
— AnonSynonymous6 (@anonsynonymous6) June 4, 2025
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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