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https://dailycaller.com/2019/05/08/scotus-nationwide-injunctions/

TRUMP ADMINISTRATION WILL ASK SUPREME COURT TO END NATIONWIDE INJUNCTIONS, PENCE SAYS

Vice President Mike Pence announced that the administration will look for opportunities to challenge nationwide injunctions before the Supreme Court.
Such orders have obstructed the Trump administration’s agenda in a number of areas.
Though such injunctions have angered Trump loyalists, conservative litigators employed them against former President Barack Obama.
The Trump administration is searching for an appropriate case in which to ask the Supreme Court to end nationwide injunctions, Vice President Mike Pence announced Wednesday in Washington at a Federalist Society conference.

Nationwide injunctions, in which federal trial judges bar the federal government from enforcing a law or carrying out a policy across the entire country, have beset President Donald Trump since he took office. District courts have blocked administration policy priorities on immigration, national security and health care.

“The Supreme Court of the United States must clarify that district judges can decide no more than the cases before them — and it’s imperative that we restore the historic tradition that district judges do not set policy for the whole nation,” Pence told the conservative lawyers group.

“In the days ahead, our administration will seek opportunities to put this question before the Supreme Court — to ensure that decisions affecting every American are made either by those elected to represent the American people or by the highest court in the land,” Pence added.

Attorney General William Barr is involved in the effort, a source with knowledge of the process told The Daily Caller News Foundation. The solicitor general, who represents the U.S. government before the justices, answers to Barr.

Critics marshal a number of arguments against nationwide injunctions — they encourage forum shopping, in which lawyers manufacture a dispute in an ideologically friendly jurisdiction; make emergencies of ordinary cases; empower a single unelected judge to set policy for the whole country and undermine ordinary legal procedure in which multiple courts weigh in on the same legal question before it is resolved by the Supreme Court, a process called “percolation.”

The notion behind percolation is that multiple courts should struggle with the same question of law before the high court’s intervention. A wide range of views can help the justices make an informed choice. In that vein, critics say far-reaching injunctions compromise the respect and deference federal courts owe one another. Respect for fellow judges, the idea goes, should lead judges to limit their rulings to the geographic area in which they have authority.

The court has already signaled its receptiveness to such a challenge. Justice Clarence Thomas wrote a short concurring opinion to the 2018 travel ban decision that urged the high court to curtail nationwide injunctions. Justice Neil Gorsuch joined the Thomas opinion.

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