Democrats move to wall off Trump admin from Marshals Service amid threats to judges

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Source: Courthouse News Service

May 22, 2025


WASHINGTON (CN) — Congressional Democrats are eyeing transformative legislation that would strip control of the U.S. Marshals Service from the White House and the Justice Department, as lawmakers sound the alarm about potential conflict between the courts and the Donald Trump administration. The bill, unveiled Thursday morning and obtained by Courthouse News, would rewrite federal law to reestablish the law enforcement agency under the authority of the federal judiciary, with a director and U.S. marshals appointed by the chief justice of the Supreme Court and an administrative board.

The Marshals Service — tasked with providing security for federal judges and courts — currently operates at the discretion of the attorney general. The bicameral group of Democrats behind the bill, which includes California Representative Eric Swalwell, Maryland Representative Jamie Raskin, New Jersey Senator Cory Booker and California Senator Alex Padilla, have argued that the Trump administration should not have authority over the Marshals Service while the president and his allies attack federal judges who have ruled against his agenda.

“The USMS, the nation’s oldest federal law enforcement agency, risks being ensnared in Trump’s efforts to upend our constitutional order,” the lawmakers said in a statement. Trump in recent months has stepped up attacks on judges who have issued rulings hamstringing a cascade of executive actions. The president said U.S. District Judge James Boasberg of Washington should be impeached after he issued an order halting mass deportations of Venezuelan migrants.

Other people in Trump’s orbit, including Vice President JD Vance, have suggested in passing that the White House could ignore rulings from federal courts and even the Supreme Court. Some lawmakers and legal experts have argued that the Trump administration is already flouting court rulings. The White House has so far failed to facilitate the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a man the Supreme Court ruled had been wrongfully deported from Maryland and should be returned.

Read more: https://www.courthousenews.com/democrats-move-to-wall-off-trump-admin-from-marshals-service-amid-threats-to-judges/

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House/Senate Democrats' PRESS RELEASE - Booker, Schumer, Padilla, Schiff, Raskin, Swalwell, and Johnson Introduce Bicameral Bill to Move US Marshals Service to Judicial Branch

Link to LEGISLATION (PDF) is here

[groundloop]

1. I doubt that it will pass, but Democrats need to be screaming bloody murder about this.

I like that this is being brought up, now it needs to be shoved down MAGATs throats.

[SSJVegeta]

2. Wont pass today, but 2027 isnt an impossibility.

Neither would electing enough of the right people to pass it with a veto proof majority.

It would have to be bad enough for people to not be able to doubt it's bad regardless of how much propaganda is fed to them, but not enough for the election to be called off. Might be close.

[Diraven]

3. Trump would definitely veto it

And then probably order the Marshalls to arrest whoever voted for it, because he can.

[Aviation Pro]

5. Illegal Order

…..

[SSJVegeta]

9. That would be much harder to do, since a law passed by overwhelming majorities would quickly deliniate the chain of comm

But it's not impossible.

[Cha]

4. TY BRDS & DEMS!

Very Best of Good Luck!

[Karasu]

6. Now this...THIS would be a major accomplishment. It's of the utmost fucking importance right now.

[Joinfortmill]

7. This is a huge issue.

[orangecrush]

8. Gee y think they should have gotten out in front of this

Before the election?

[yellow dahlia]

10. My thought, as well. Too bad no one anticipated the need in the previous administration.

[orangecrush]

11. "Dictator on day one"

It's not like.he gave us any warning.

[yellow dahlia]

12. The Dems think this is a pillow fight, and

the RepubliCONS have gone nuclear.