Hawaii and Texas judges, hardest hit. And maybe legal strategists who benefit from forum-shopping as well. In a 6-3 decision released this morning, the Supreme Court put a stop to the practice of district courts issuing nationwide or “universal” injunctions against the executive branch in exercises of its constitutional authority. The case of Trump v...
This has been a matter of debate since the first Trump administration. Then as now, Democrats and other left-wing groups would file complaints in reliably left-leaning courts and some federal judge would issue a “nationwide injunction” to stop whatever the left wanted stopped. Attorney General Bill Barr was arguing this was a problem back in...
On Wednesday, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives passed a bill aiming to curtail federal judges’ ability to issue nationwide restraining orders — an action that, if successful, would flout hundreds of years of judicial case law and precedent. Judges have always had the power to impose nationwide injunctions on local, state or federal governments and...