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Veronica Escobar: “There were 14 injunctions against [the] Biden administration…”

Featuring: Veronica Escobar, Democratic | U.S. House, Texas, District 16

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Discussion on Judicial Challenges and Republican Court System Overhaul

Published | Video Starts at 00:53

And she used that as an example of what she claimed as evidence that, quote, there are judicial activists throughout our judicial branch that are trying to block this president's executive authority, end quote. Let's break that down first. She's right. There were 14 injunctions against [the] Biden administration policies. An injunction, by the way, in this case is when a judge tells the executive branch, the president and his administration, that their actions may not be legal and must stop while that question works its way through the courts. (00:53–00:59)

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States that 14 injunctions were issued against Biden administration policies.

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