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Courts Will Have to Grapple With New Limits on Their Power
The New York Times ^ | June 28, 2025, 5:03 a.m. ET | Mattathias Schwartz

Posted on 06/28/2025 4:59:40 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Poor dears. Reality sucks.


41 posted on 06/28/2025 5:52:31 PM PDT by WashingtonSource
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

No, they won’t. Activist judges running roughshod on the Constitution will have to start doing their job properly or step down.


42 posted on 06/28/2025 5:56:19 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Think about it: The Supreme Court is nine lawyers appointed for life by politicians. —David Horowitz)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Their judges will ignore the SCOTUS decision.


43 posted on 06/28/2025 5:56:40 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: CFW

Wow! This is borderline illiterate!


44 posted on 06/28/2025 5:59:50 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt (Fascist, deplorable, and proud of it!)
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To: from occupied ga
You need 60 senate votes to convict. Between the democrats and RINO Murkowski you won’t get 60 votes in the senate.

Irrelevant. Once impeached is always impeached.
45 posted on 06/28/2025 6:01:14 PM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: Frank Drebin

The camels nose has been under the tent for too long.

It will take a few more wacks to get the camel back into his place.


46 posted on 06/28/2025 6:05:13 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad
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To: tumblindice

These judges do not seem to understand that they are delegitimizing the entire federal court system by exceeding their legitimate powers. And once delegitimized, they will not be able to regain that respect for a long time.


47 posted on 06/28/2025 6:05:36 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt (Fascist, deplorable, and proud of it!)
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Nothing new here.

They never had unlimited or unrestrained power.

I challenge anyone on the planet to post factual and verifiable text in either the Constitution or any law that establishes a district federal judge to have any nation-wide sweeping powers above and over Constitutional Article II powers of the Executive.

It's never existed. The district judges assigned this so-called powers to themselves like any good ol' fascist would.

48 posted on 06/28/2025 6:06:25 PM PDT by USCG SimTech
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To: Dr. Franklin

Impeached in the House is irrelevant because unless convicted by the senate they keep their position and can continue their malfeasances. In short impeachment is like being charged with an offense. Unless found guilty no serious consequences other than the process itself which is a guaranteed not guilty for liberal judicial insurrectionists is nothing


49 posted on 06/28/2025 6:08:13 PM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Limits that always existed before — until Jan 20, 2025.


50 posted on 06/28/2025 6:13:35 PM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It wasn’t really about limiting presidential power. It was about making sure district courts did not exceed their jurisdiction. They are district courts not national courts.


51 posted on 06/28/2025 6:14:20 PM PDT by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: 17th Miss Regt

The six prudent justices understand. The judicial branch has no power other than the respect and deference paid to it by their co-equal branches, and the People.
The democrats see activist judges as “politics by other means” cloaked with the respect earned by past and present judges who adhere to the con law II taught doctrine of “nonjusticable matters”—which include political questions.


52 posted on 06/28/2025 6:15:11 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: lastchance
It wasn’t really about limiting presidential power. It was about making sure district courts did not exceed their jurisdiction. They are district courts not national courts.

Even if SCOTUS rules against the Executive, SCOTUS has zero enforcement capacity. Never mind some piddly-azz district judge thinking they have some big hammer. That job then reverts to Congress and impeachment.

53 posted on 06/28/2025 6:18:23 PM PDT by USCG SimTech
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To: Secret Agent Man

That’s basically right. The judges did the nationwide injunction under the theory that as a court of equity, they were obligated to protect all those who might be harmed by what they saw as a grievous wrong, not just the parties to the action in their courtroom.

But there’s already a way to deal with that - it’s called a class action (or mass action) lawsuit.

As Pam Bondi said several times: O 35 out of 40 nationwide injunctions came from just 5 of the 94 federal judicial districts - all obviously in the bluest of democrat areas. The democrats “judge shopped” to bring action in those courts knowing the judges would act as they did.

Trump will not proceed and any judge who tries to claim he does not have to obey this decision will have some ‘splainin’ to do. Trump will either ignore him (based on this decision) or they’ll end up back in court where in all probability the judge will be smacked down individually and hard. I don’t think any of them want that.


54 posted on 06/28/2025 6:35:15 PM PDT by bigbob (Yes. We ARE going back)
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To: Salman
That's not correct: Republicans used a nationwide injunction to block Obama's Executive Order on DACA. And again to block Biden's order on Title 9. Both parties have used this to their advantage:

But it's clear that more injunctions have been issued against Trump than all other Presidents combined - in fact more than were issued in total over the past century. SCOTUS realized this is beyond the powers of federal judges and limited them accordingly.

55 posted on 06/28/2025 6:42:26 PM PDT by bigbob (Yes. We ARE going back)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The ruling only limits “district court” judges from issuing nationwide rulings.

Nothing here is stoping appeals courts from doing so


56 posted on 06/28/2025 7:20:59 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: from occupied ga
Impeached in the House is irrelevant because unless convicted by the senate they keep their position and can continue their malfeasances. In short impeachment is like being charged with an offense. Unless found guilty no serious consequences other than the process itself which is a guaranteed not guilty for liberal judicial insurrectionists is nothing

A gang of black robed tyrants usurped the power given to the duly elected POTUS. They deserve to be impeached over that. No one is above the law and all, ya know? I don't give a chit what the Senate does. Let them expose themselves as spineless weasels content to allow the mullahs of the judiciary to veto election results.
57 posted on 06/28/2025 7:24:58 PM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

That’s a real eye-opener. Thank you.


58 posted on 06/28/2025 7:26:55 PM PDT by pingman ("Step right up! Get your free helicopter ride, courtesy of Pinochet Air!")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Oh no! The courts can’t just lord over us?

Say it isn’t so!


59 posted on 06/28/2025 7:29:45 PM PDT by Tzimisce ( )
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To: bigbob; Salman
Obama's Executive Order on DACA

It wasn't an Executive Order, it was an effing Memorandum.

"The policy, an executive branch memorandum, was announced by President Barack Obama on June 15, 2012."

60 posted on 06/28/2025 7:31:53 PM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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