#SCOTUS 1

Via Mark Joseph Stern:

🚨By a 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court rules that universal injunctions likely exceed federal courts' authority and rolls back the injunctions protecting birthright citizenship from Trump's attack. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24a884_8n59.pdf

SCOTUS conservative supermajority just took away lower courts' single most powerful tool for reining in the Trump administration's lawless excesses, stripping them of authority to issue universal injunctions that block illegal policies nationwide

2/ Via Joyce Vance:

1/ Remember (& you’ll hear this caveat from all the legal commentators) today’s SCOTUS decision in the birthright citizenship case is not about whether Trump can do away with birthright citizenship in an EO. It’s about whether a single district judge can issue a nationwide injunction pausing the EO.

3/ Stern:

KBJ, in dissent, calls today's ruling "profoundly dangerous" and an "existential threat to the rule of law." She expresses her "deep disillusionment" with the court and suggests that the conservative supermajority continues to crown Trump a king above law. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24a884_8n59.pdf

4/ Vance:

That means they apply to the plaintiff who sued. But don’t worry, the lawyers will be back in court today. Expect more lawsuits in class action lawsuits, much as we’ve seen with deportation. This fight is far from over.

5/ Vance:

And a little side snark— the next time MAGA wants to, say, ban access to medication abortion on a nationwide basis, this will apply to them too. I’m off to study for decision, but you’ve got the broad contours.

6/ Elie Mystal:

The main upshot of today's birthright citizenship ruling (that I'm still making way through) seems to be that each person victimized by an unconstitutional Trump order has to pretty much sue individually.
Trump is free to act unconstitutionally to everybody individually.

Also, all you liberals who were humping Amy Coney Barrett last month really should have listened to me when I told you SHE IS NOT YOUR FRIEND

7/ Brad Moss:

Republicans have to just hope they never lose control of the White House or they are going to HATE this SCOTUS ruling gutting nationwide injunctions.

It was just as commonly used by conservatives to upend Biden's policies through lower court injunctions issued by overly-conservative judges.

8/ Mystal:

The Supreme Court has neutered the ability of every other federal court to stop Trump's lawless decrees.

9/ Moss:

Every lawyer in line to advise potential Democratic presidential candidates is drafting right now a host of policies that could be implemented without fear of nationwide injunctions slowing them down.

10/ Jackson, dissenting: "Today’s ruling allows the Executive to
deny people rights that the Founders plainly wrote into our
Constitution, so long as those individuals have not found a
lawyer or asked a court in a particular manner to have their
rights protected."

11/ David Rothkopf:

Particularly victimized by this perversion of our rule of law by Roberts and the extremist majority on the court are, of course, as always, the poor. No money=no lawyers=no ability to sue. But think about that--it means only those with lawyers & $ to sue have any hope of protecting their rights.