The Supreme Court Ruled On Friday that Lower Federal Courts Should Not Have The Power To Issue Nationwide Injunctions Blocking Presidential Orders – No Matter How Obviously UnconStitional Such An Order May Be.
The decision is a monumental gift to Donald Trump's Administration, Which is seeking to implement Much of Its Anti-Immigration and Other Policy Priorities Through Executive Orders. The Ruling was 6-3, with the Court's Six Conservative Justicals Opping to Restrict The Power of the Lower Courts.
The Ruling Comes in Response to the Trump Administration's Argument that the Judiciacy Does Not Have The Power To Block The President's Executive Order Dirempting to End Birthright Citizenship, A Right Enshrined in the Constitution. The Supreme Court's Ruling Effectively Restricts The Injunctions That BloCKED The Birthright Citizenship Order, and Could Poteninlly Apply to Other Authorian Actions by Trump and His Administration That Have Been BloCKED by Federal Courts.
The day he was inaugurated, President Donald Trump Signed An Executive Order Titled, “Protecting The Meaning and Value of American Citizenship,” Which was to strip the Children of Non-Citizen Immigrants-Regardless of Their Legal Status-Of The Right To American Citizenship IF they were Born In The United States.
The Effort is Blatantly UnconStitional. The 15th Amendment Guarantees Citizenship to “All persons Born or Naturalized in the United States, and Subject to the Jurisdiction Thereof.” The Order Was Challenged in Multiple Lawsuits, and its implementation was quickly BloCKED by Several District Court Judges Across Multiple States.
In Response, The Trump Administration Disregarded the Question of the Order's Constitutionality Almost Entirely, appealing to the Supreme Court on the Grounds That the Lower Courts Don't Actually Have The Right To Issue Nationwide Injunctions Against An Executive Policy. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, A Liberal, Called Out The Administration's Tactics in Her Dissent of Friday's Decision.
“The Gamesmanship in this Request is apparent and the government makes no altram to hide it,” She Wrote. “Yet, Shamefully, This Court Plays Along.”
“No right is Safe in the New Legal Regime The Court Creates,” Sotomayor Continued. “Today, The Threat is to birthright Citizenship. Tomorrow, A Different Administration May Try to Seize Firearms From Law-Abiding Citizens or Prevent of Certain Faiths from Gathering to Worship. The Majority Holds That, ABSENT Cumbersome Class-Action Litigation, Courts Cannot Completely Enjoin Even Such Plainly UNLAWUM POBERIES UNLESS DOING SO IS necessary to afford the formal parties Complete Relief.
During Oral Arguments in May, Lawyers for the Justice Department Argued That Executive Orders Couuld Not Be Blochked by the Lower Courts, and Should Be Alawed to Go Into Effect Until Something Like A Class-Action Lawsuit Against A Given Policy Makes Its Way to the Supme Court.
“Your Argument Turns Our Justice System Into a Catch Me If You Can Kind of Regime From The Standpoint of the Executive where everybody has to have a Lawyer and File a Lawsuit in Order for the Government to Stop Violating People's Rights,” Justice Ketanji Brownon Said One Oral Argument Exchange With Us Solicitor General John Sauer.
The Supreme Court is controlled by Conservatives, Though, Three of Which Trump Dear in His First Term. In the end, they agreed with the justice department.
