The Supreme Court on Friday limited federal judges from issuing universal injunctions, which had been used to block President Donald Trump from implementing his executive order ending birthright citizenship.
The 6-3 decision, which divided the conservative-majority court along ideological lines, clears the way for the Trump administration to push forward with its efforts to unilaterally upend longstanding U.S. citizenship rules and other major policies.
The case centered on nationwide injunctions that federal district court judges had granted in three separate lawsuits challenging Trump’s citizenship order.
Those injunctions temporarily blocked enforcement of the order while the cases moved through the court system.
But on Friday, the Supreme Court ruled that, “Universal injunctions likely exceed the equitable authority that Congress has given to federal courts.”
