Posted on 06/27/2025 10:05:44 AM PDT by lightman
The CASA ruling has been handed down, and rogue judges and unhinged liberals are hardest hit. While it doesn’t address the issue of birthright citizenship per se, it did strike down the national injunction power that district judges have been abusing since the outset of the second Trump presidency.
SCOTUSblog set up the issue:
Whether the Supreme Court should stay the district courts' nationwide preliminary injunctions on the Trump administration’s Jan. 20 executive order ending birthright citizenship except as to the individual plaintiffs and identified members of the organizational plaintiffs or states.
And in a 6-3 ruling, the Court ruled:
Universal injunctions likely exceed the equitable authority that Congress has given to federal courts. The Court grants the Government’s applications for a partial stay of the injunctions entered below, but only to the extent that the injunctions are broader than necessary to provide complete relief to each plaintiff with standing to sue.
Trump v. Casa (birthright citizenship) is a Barrett opinion. Looks like a blunderbuss against national injunctions. This is a genuine "holy crap" decision. If you've been waiting for SCOTUS to rein in anti-Trump district courts, this one's for you (@varadmehta ) — Sean T at RCP (@SeanTrende) June 27, 2025
Katie's post on the decision is here.
🚨BREAKING: The Supreme Court rules that nationwide injunctions "likely exceed the equitable authority that Congress has given to federal courts."
This is a BIG WIN for President Trump — against rogue federal judges & universal injunctions! pic.twitter.com/hqm7N1yNr2 — Townhall.com (@townhallcom) June 27, 2025
On the one year anniversary of Trump’s debate smackdown on Biden, SCOTUS just delivered him the biggest victory he’s ever received.
District Court judges can no longer thwart his agenda with nationwide injunctions. pic.twitter.com/MPhHjeSplC — johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) June 27, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court limits judges' power on nationwide injunctions, but fate of Trump birthright citizenship order unclear. — Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) June 27, 2025
Talk about a smackdown of these little judges. Judge James Boasberg is probably crying like a little girl in a closet, but let’s get back to this opinion. It was written by Amy Coney Barrett, whose opinions have been mixed, but this one is excellent. She also torched her liberal colleagues:
We will not dwell on JUSTICE JACKSON’s argument, which is at odds with more than two centuries’ worth of precedent, not to mention the Constitution itself. We observe only this: JUSTICE JACKSON decries an imperial Executive while embracing an imperial Judiciary.
And then, there’s this footnote:
The principal dissent faults us for failing to identify a single founding era case in which this Court held that universal injunctions exceed a federal court’s equitable authority. See post, at 29 (opinion of SOTOMAYOR, J.). But this absence only bolsters our case. That this Court had no occasion to reject the universal injunction as inconsistent with traditional equity practice merely demonstrates that no party even bothered to ask for such a sweeping remedy—because no court would have entertained the request. Cf. Grupo Mexicano, 527 U. S., at 332 (“[E]quitable powers conferred by the Judiciary Act of 1789 did not include the power to create remedies previously unknown to equity jurisprudence”).
The entire conservative wing laughed at their liberal colleagues for adhering to a legal philosophy that the late Justice Antonin Scalia would routinely expose and mock as pure applesauce. As he noted, the world is your oyster if you’re a liberal jurist; you twiddle your thumbs and stare at the ceiling, wondering if the death penalty is unconstitutional today.
More of Barrett nuking Jackson from orbit: pic.twitter.com/joKaIdtr0v — Conn Carroll (@conncarroll) June 27, 2025
What a brutal takedown by Justice Barrett.
Again, the issue of birthright citizenship wasn't tackled head-on, but gutting the national injunction powers wielded by unhinged district courts is a solid win.
The judicial coup is over.
Holy shit, this is about as brutal as I've ever seen SCOTUS be on one of their own.
Translated: "you are so stupid that you aren't even worth responding to." pic.twitter.com/e4gDIBM6Va — Kostas Moros (@MorosKostas) June 27, 2025
“Better put some ice on that”.....
To be more accurate, 化炭寺 (that’s Japanese for Ketanji) embraces an imperial Left, regardless of where in the government it happens to reside.
The purpose of government to the left is the promotion of the leftist revolution; nothing else matters.
Supreme Court Rules Nationwide Injunctions by District Courts EXCEED Their Authority. More information needed on Birth Certificates going forward. – CDR Kerchner (Ret)’s Blog
https://cdrkerchner.wordpress.com/2025/06/27/supreme-court-rules-nationwide-injunctions-by-district-courts-exceed-their-authority/
CDR Charles Kerchner (Ret)
ProtectOurLiberty [dot] org
Let’s see what happens if, God forbid, Deep State succeeds in stealing another federal election, and SCOTUS is asked to take the case.
Let’s see if it still says neither candidates nor the citizenry has standing.
pretty hard smackdown. hard to believe it is from Amy
This was the most important issue!
Crickets from the Justice Amy Coney Barrett haters today. Bunch of cowards.
Cat fight ......
LOL!
This is a significant win but leaves me wondering if the SC will use this to soften the blow of ruling eventually that birthright citizenship is Constitutional. Must be the pessimist in me.
The Weird Sisters are becoming a strong argument for repealing the 19th.
Not to worry. Cue the “Pack the Court!” mob in 3, 2, 1.
Thank you, Senator Schumer. Reaping the whirlwind YOU sowed.
Sure is a nice representative republic you have there. Be a shame if something happened to it.
“Must be the pessimist in me.”
Unfortunately I felt the same upon reading. Unless and until we get a complete and unassailable ruling that dismisses birthright citizenship outright, we will need to prepare for huge tax increases as multi-generational welfare becomes the norm.
JUSTICE JACKSON decries a "CONSERVATIVE / REPUBLICAN" Executive while embracing ANY imperial LEFTIST Judiciary.
When a democRAT/DemoKKKrat Leftist Radical Executive is in power..... No Worries!
Who remembers "Stroke of a pen....law of the land. Kind of cool.” Paul Begala in the Clinton White House,
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Cat fight - my thought as well
From Trump’s presser, it is clear he will now flip the bird to any federal judge that tries to screw him over - the day of unchecked universal injunction power is OVER. They were never going to flaunt the law until this case was decided and now that it has been by the Supreme Court, the judge Boasbergs will be unable to stop him. Of the 94 judicial districts, 35 out of 40 nationwide injunctions were from FIVE liberal districts run by activist judges.
NO MORE!
‘Again, the issue of birthright citizenship wasn’t tackled head-on’...but it was addressed in some detail in Barret’s majority opinion.
There are other articles which are saying that the SCOTUS left back doors open - like class action suits - which the left is already organizing to use on national levels. I am most definitely not a lawyer, so can some legal beagle comment on whether this is true? Is this victory not really so big?
SCOTUS may side w birthright, but there is so much paper written on the purpose of the 14th Amendment that it would require Burger Court manufactured law to allow birthright. Especially for a practice started by Ted Kennedy.
But these are crazy times so a crazy ruling is possible!!!
Thats how we will be able to tell how badly this really hurt the leftists…..
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