The Supreme Court handed President Donald Trump a “GIANT WIN” on Friday by ruling against “universal injunctions” and limiting court injunctions after a lower court issued a preliminary injunction against the president’s executive order blocking birthright citizenship for illegal immigrants.
In a 6-3 ruling on Friday, the Supreme Court wrote, “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.”
In Friday’s ruling, Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett claimed that the “universal injunction was conspicuously nonexistent” for the majority of U.S. history.
“Its absence from 18th- and 19th-century equity practice settles the question of judicial authority,” Barrett wrote. “That the absence continued into the 20th century renders any claim of historical pedigree still more implausible.”
Barrett explained that the Supreme Court’s ruling does not address whether the president’s executive order on birthright citizenship violates the Nationality Act of the Citizenship Clause. Instead, Barrett said the issue presented to the Supreme Court “is one of remedy: whether, under the Judiciary Act of 1789, federal courts have equitable authority to issue universal injunctions.”
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Barrett added, “A universal injunction can be justified only as an exercise of equitable authority, yet Congress has granted federal courts no such power.”
In a concurring opinion, Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh explained that the court’s decision will now require district courts throughout the country to “follow proper legal procedures” with regard to injunctions.
“Most significantly, district courts can no longer award preliminary nationwide or classwide relief except when such relief is legally authorized,” Kavanaugh stated.
Following Friday’s Supreme Court ruling, Trump issued a statement on Truth Social, saying, “GIANT WIN in the United States Supreme Court! Even the Birthright Citizenship Hoax has been, indirectly, hit hard. It had to do with the babies of slaves (same year!), not the SCAMMING of our Immigration process.”
Vice President J.D. Vance also released a statement regarding the Supreme Court’s decision, describing it as a “huge ruling.” Vance claimed that the ruling will stop the “ridiculous process of nationwide injunctions” that Democrat judges have used to continually block the president’s executive orders.
“Under our system, everyone has to follow the law–including judges!” Vance tweeted.
