Posted on 06/27/2025 8:21:59 AM PDT by Signalman
President Donald Trump and his administration are rejoicing on Friday as the Supreme Court issued a ruling limiting the authority of judges to issue nationwide injunctions.
Nationwide injunctions are sweeping orders issued by district courts to block executive actions across the country. The Supreme Court ruled that these orders exceed the equitable authority Congress has granted to federal courts.
Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote the majority opinion, while Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented.
The case stems from an emergency appeal by the current administration, which sought to narrow orders that have blocked President Trump’s executive orders preventing birthright citizenship from taking effect nationwide. Liberal news outlets claim the nationwide court orders are an important check on Trump and his efforts to enforce immigration law.
Last month, during oral arguments for the case, SCOTUS looked as if they would allow a block on citizenship restrictions to remain while also trying to come up with a solution to scale back nationwide court orders. A majority of justices were worried about the consequences if the administration were given permission, even on a temporary basis, to deny citizenship to babies born to parents in the U.S. illegally.
“Democratic-led states, immigrants and rights groups who sued over Trump’s executive order argued that it would upset the settled understanding of birthright citizenship that has existed for more than 125 years,” NBC Washington reported.
In the first six months of Trump’s second term, 17 nationwide injunctions have been ordered. His first term had more than that. Proponents of the injunctions continue to argue that these are tools to help protect rights in all districts. Critics refer to them as judicial overreach that causes policy disruptions.
Recently, the House passed a bill that would curtail nationwide injunctions, limiting them to only the parties directly involved. However, the Senate is not likely to approve the legislation. Senators Chuck Grassley and Tom Cotton have proposed measures aimed at restoring the separation of powers by maintaining unequal judicial remedies.
This decision by the Supreme Court, according to legal experts, marks a significant redefinition of the federal judiciary’s reach. By curtailing nationwide injunctions, both executive and legislative power are strengthened. The ruling will ultimately reshape the legal landscape for future challenges to federal policy.
They justify ignoring SCOTUS by parsing words, no less. If SCOTUS is general in the language of their ruling, the ruling will be ignored by the rogue judges. Leftists need to be beat in the head with SPECIFICITY
S0! When are they going to start indicting these black robed scumbags for obstructing the President of the United States and the will of the American voters? LOCK THEM UP!!!
“upset the settled understanding of birthright citizenship that has existed for more than 125 years,” NBC Washington reported.”
NBC Washington is full of crap.
Maybe that’s how they have been getting away with it;
semantics and circular arguments, mostly based on emotion.
All of the female gender too whether they know that or not.
NOPE.
How will these “lower courts” enforce their “rulings”?
Trump now has SCOTUS, the FBI, Federal marshals, federal troops on his side.
What do lower courts have?
“If SCOTUS is general in the language of their ruling, the ruling will be ignored by the rogue judges”
And of course Trump will ignore the now illegitimate lower court rulings, as SCOTUS has made clear.
Stop crying.
Just the entire Beltway Bureaucracy.
The events of 2025 suggest they’ll leverage the MSM and paid destructive mobs.
NICE!!! I think Trump had what, 45 injunctions against him and his Administration, does that mean they are all void now..so Trump can reverse every single injunction against him and get his darn agenda through
How relevant is MSM?
MSM backed Harris like 98% and Harris still lost all 7 swing states.
Legal experts, LOL! Name them... Bad reporting and biased.
This decision doesn't "redefine" anything. It simply says what the Constitution says. The lower courts do not have power over the Executive branch. They just don't.
I do not appreciate your comment; that was a real ignorant and jerky thing to say. You do not know me and I have never interacted with you. My post was in no way “crying”, it was pointing out the legal reality of the situation. But trolls like you care nothing for reality.
The left generally ignores all official interpretations of the Constitution, what makes you think they will just bend over for this one? The legal reality is the universal Injunctions will not stop being issued by leftist Fed District Court judges by parsing the words in the opinions and will not be overturned until appeals to the Circuits and/or SCOTUS causing delay to the EO implementations. The way ACB wrote this opinion, an argument can be made that the ruling may be limited to apply only to the universal Injunctions against implementation of the birthright citizenship EO.
Great news!
I’m sure a lot of black-robed terrorists are royally pissed off, but now it’ll be easier to implement MAGA policies, the mass deportations in particular.
Yes.
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