The US Supreme Court has delivered a bombshell ruling that individual judges lack the power to issue nationwide injunctions and block the policies of President Trump or any other administration. The Mail has more.
It was a landmark decision that was seen as a major victory for President Donald Trump in his battle with the judiciary.
Trump has complained about individual judges in any state being able to issue orders against his policies that apply across the country.
It is a ruling that will have far-reaching consequences for those challenging other Trump administration policies in the future.
The court ruled 6-3 in favor of Trump, with all six conservative justices – including the three he appointed – siding with the President.
He wrote on Truth Social: “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.”
The case arose after a battle between Trump and various judges in states far from Washington over his plan to end the right to birthright citizenship.
Trump had issued an executive order that would deny citizenship to US-born children of people who are in the country illegally, and several judges issued injunctions against that.
The Supreme Court justices have now ruled those lower judges did not have the power to block Trump’s policies nationwide.
However, in a complex ruling, the justices did leave open the possibility that Trump’s specific birthright citizenship changes could remain blocked.
Friday’s case stemmed from an executive order Trump signed as soon as he took office that ended birthright citizenship – the legal principle that US citizenship is automatically granted to individuals upon birth.
Under the directive, children born to parents in the United States illegally or on temporary visas would not automatically become citizens, radically altering the interpretation of the Constitution’s 14th Amendment for over 150 years.
The Supreme Court did not rule on the legality of Trump’s order purporting to end birthright citizenship and left open a legal path to challenge it.
Trump claims birthright citizenship was tied to “slavery” and should be immediately dismantled.
“That’s not about tourists coming in and touching a piece of sand and then all of the sudden there’s citizenship, you know they’re a citizen, that is all about slavery,” the President argued.
“If you look at it that way, that case is an easy case to win,” he had previously stated.
The 6-3 Supreme Court decision was written by Justice Amy Coney Barrett.
“Federal courts do not exercise general oversight of the Executive Branch; they resolve cases and controversies consistent with the authority Congress has given them,” she wrote.
However, Trump’s executive order will not go into effect for 30 days, the justices said in their opinion, which allows is legality to be further challenged.
In a concurring opinion with Barrett, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said another way to challenge the executive order is to “ask a court to award preliminary class wide relief that may, for example, be statewide, regionwide or even nationwide”.
But the larger implication of the ruling affects the power of individual judges.
The court’s decision upends the ability of a single federal judge to freeze Presidential policies on a nationwide basis.
Judges have used this powerful and controversial tool to block policies instituted by Democratic and Republican administrations.
The liberal Supreme Court justices disagreed with the ruling.
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Now all these vexatious cases brought by George Soros funded DAs should be dropped and the elected president allowed to do his job unhindered by the elites’ malignant lawfare. We will wait and see.
It has always seemed to me that a wee baby could indeed by virtue of being born there have citizenship but only on achieving majority at 18, and obviously that cannot transfer to his parents.
But basically Trump is right again and all this lefty shite needs to be binned immediately.
Strange parallel ‘clouds’ in the sky.
yes don’t recall the crosses and lines floating overhead here in mid Sussex in times past. but I am just a cloud-spiracy theorist of course.
Well played, President Trump! Going the Biden route of ignoring the courts would have given he legacy media a delay in their long drawn-out execution.
Why on Earth did it take so long for the Supreme Court to be asked to make such a common sense decision?
It’s about time that a UK prime minister grew a pair, stood up to the courts/activist judges and made it clear that the government makes the rules not the judiciary. Obviously Starmer won’t do this, will Farage?
“Why on Earth did it take so long for the Supreme Court to be asked to make such a common sense decision?”
It’s a good question. Maybe before now, the “problem” of judges using this tactic was much less widespread.
Money. Most of these retards calling themselves judges, work for, are paid by, are elected by, are empowered by, are fanatical adherents of, the Demon Party and the Deep State. An unvirtuous illegal criminal circle.
The PM is unlikely to do any such thing while a. The courts are doing what he wants them to and b. His mates are earning shed loads of money while they’re doing it…
Maybe a word of caution.
Who will then be able to hold a government to account, if it is deemed government dictats cannot be challenged?
(by the way I don’t like the way the system is currently running, but maybe there is a better way rather than just dismissing it?).
Having a written constitution as they do in the USA makes it harder to cheat but leftist judges have been taking the piss there since the 50s. The only real guarantee of liberty and accountability is the vigilance and courage of the people, which has been sadly lacking
I never understood why the American People ever tolerated this obvious scam in the first place! It’s equivalent to some local magistrate in Leicester claiming that his own judicial decisions apply to the entire country, overriding both Parliament and Monarchy.
The Global Kritocracy = “Rule by Judges” plot has finally been dealt a blow.
Bombshell? Most opinion was the Supreme Court would rule in his favour.