Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) opposes President Donald Trump‘s desire to impeach judges who have proven to be roadblocks to the administration’s agenda. Grassley acknowledged a “massive abuse” of national injunctions in recent years and said that legislation needs to be passed to remedy this and prevent district judges from becoming “policymakers.

While some Republican lawmakers have heartily backed impeachments, others see them as a wrongheaded distraction from their party’s legislative agenda and are pursuing other ways to rein in the judiciary.

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the 91-year-old chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, pushed back Thursday against calls by President Trump and some House Republicans to impeach federal judges

The Justice Department in a filing asked the court to lift Washington-based U.S. District Judge James Boasberg's March 15 order calling for a temporary halt of the summary removals of the Venezuelans while a legal challenge to Trump's invocation of the Alien Enemies Act to justify the deportations plays out.

Lower courts have temporarily blocked the government’s use of a wartime law to send Venezuelans to an El Salvador prison.

The Trump administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court for permission to resume deportations of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador under an 18th century wartime law, while a court fight continues.

President Donald Trump's administration has increasingly turned to the use of emergency appeals to the Supreme Court as it faces more than 130 lawsuits over his executive orders

The emergency appeal to the high court follows a rejection of the Republican administration’s plea to the federal appeals court in Washington.

President Donald Trump’s administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to wade into the fraught legal battle over enforcing the Alien Enemies Act, the wartime authority he used to rapidly deport alleged members of a Venezuelan gang.