Supreme Court, injunctions
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The Supreme Court’s ruling in a case on birthright citizenship gave an ominous warning to those challenging other Trump policies by curbing the use of nationwide injunctions that barred the order from being implemented all across the country.
A SCOTUS ruling on birthright citizenship could also shut down a key strategy for financial services to block unwelcome federal rules.
Trump administration celebrates Supreme Court's decision restricting nationwide injunctions, as Bondi noted 35 of 40 injunctions came from just five liberal districts.
"The Court has jurisdiction to enforce its preliminary injunctions to preserve the status quo, but it does not have jurisdiction to narrow the scope of its preliminary injunctions."
In Trump v. CASA, the Supreme Court significantly narrowed federal courts’ power to issue “universal” or “nationwide” injunctions—broad orders that bar the government from enforcing a policy against anyone,
Over the past month, the U.S. Supreme Court issued over 20 rulings, addressing a variety of issues. These decisions could affect millions of Americans and have significant implications for issues impacting UT.
That’s what made June 27 an especially momentous day in the career of new University of Chicago law professor Samuel Bray, whose scholarship on the topic of universal injunctions was cited over a dozen times by the Supreme Court in the case Trump v. CASA.
Politics and intellectual consistency go together like banana on pizza. But the reaction from Democrats to the recent Supreme Court ruling on judicial authority deserves special attention.