A Polarizing Legal Stratagem — the National Injunction — Is Emerging as a Powerful Tool of Resistance to President Trump’s Agenda
The 47th president tells the Supreme Court that more nationwide injunctions were issued in February alone than during the entirety of the Biden administration.
President Trump’s emergency appeal to the Supreme Court in respect of birthright citizenship zeroes in on a practice that is becoming the bane of the 47th president’s efforts to redeem his campaign promises — the nationwide or “universal” injunction.
A universal injunction is when a court binds the federal government not only in relation to the parties before it, but also nonparties from coast to coast. Mr. Trump is appealing the scope of three such orders, handed down by three district court judges, blocking nationwide his executive order on birthright citizenship.
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