ICYMI: Grassley Joins John Solomon Reports to Discuss Universal Injunctions, Whistleblower Protections and Biden’s Failure to Protect Unaccompanied Migrant Children

WASHINGTON –Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined theJohn Solomon Reportspodcast to discuss his legislation toend universal injunctions, his efforts to protect whistleblowers andundo retaliation,and his oversight of the Biden-Harris administration'sunaccompanied migrant childrenprogram.
Grassley recently introduced theJudicial Relief Clarification Act of 2025 (JRCA), to put a stop to universal injunctions and unconstitutional judicial overreach.
Listen to the podcastHEREand see below for excerpts.
On Universal Injunctions:
“Normally, a case before a judge ought to apply just to that district and just to the people that are before the court. And [a district judge] makes his decision based on no influence outside of [those] individuals or that district. Now, when a national injunction is put in place, it affects all the other [93] district federal district courts.”
"We want to limit what the judge can do to that district and to the [party], and we want it to be appealable very quickly. So, if the judge screws up constitutionally, we can do something about it... In the case of interpreting a law...leave your own personal views out of it and make sure you interpret the statute in a very strict way.”
“Universal injunctions put unnecessary stress on the courts and politicize the courts, and we need a long-term solution to this problem. Because this is relatively new happening with national injunctions…
“This shouldn't be a partisan issue, because Democrats in the Biden administration were condemning judges that were putting national injunctions in, and we need to make sure that [this] hopefully becomes a bipartisan issue.”
On Unaccompanied Minors:
“[T]hisDepartment of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General reportconfirmed my oversight of the minor’s program [that] was practically non-existent. In fact, we have some evidence from a fired whistleblower that reported that they were sending some unaccompanied children to a family that had a connection with MS-13.”
On Whistleblowers and Government Oversight:
“We've got several [whistleblowers] that we're trying to get their whistleblower security clearances back, so we can get them their job back… If they were good public servants before they became official whistleblowers and they didn't do anything wrong, then they ought to have their job back yesterday
"[We] did it very well with theIRS whistleblowers,but that's only two people of dozens of whistleblowers that I'm trying to help get their job back.”
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