{"id":1536210,"date":"2025-05-15T13:40:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T17:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1536210"},"modified":"2025-05-15T13:40:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T17:40:00","slug":"a-modest-request-the-supreme-court-hears-challenge-to-national-or-universal-injunctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/a-modest-request-the-supreme-court-hears-challenge-to-national-or-universal-injunctions\/1536210\/","title":{"rendered":"“A Modest Request”: The Supreme Court Hears Challenge To National Or Universal Injunctions"},"content":{"rendered":"

“A Modest Request”: The Supreme Court Hears Challenge To National Or Universal Injunctions<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Jonathan Turley,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Today, the United States Supreme Court will hear three consolidated cases in\u00a0Trump v. CASA\u00a0<\/em>on the growing use of national or universal injunctions.<\/strong> This is a matter submitted on the \u201cshadow docket\u201d and the underlying cases concern the controversy over \u201cbirthright citizenship.\u201d However, the merits of those claims are not at issue. Instead, the Trump Administration has made a \u201cmodest request\u201d for the Court to limit the scope of lower-court injunctions to their immediate districts and parties, challenging the right of such courts to bind an Administration across the nation.<\/p>\n

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The case is the consolidation of three matters:\u00a0Trump v. CASA<\/a><\/em>\u00a0out of\u00a0 Maryland;\u00a0Trump v. Washington<\/a><\/em>\u00a0out of Washington State, and\u00a0Trump v. New Jersey<\/a><\/em>, out of Massachusetts. These cases also present standing issues since the Administration challenges the argument that there is a cognizable \u201cinjury\u201d to individuals who may travel to the states bringing the actions.<\/p>\n

However, the main question is the scope of injunctions.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As I have\u00a0previously<\/a>\u00a0written, district court judges have issued a record number of injunctions in the first 100 days of the Trump Administration.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Under President George W. Bush, there were only six<\/strong> such injunctions, which increased to 12 under Obama.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n

However, when Trump came to office, he faced 64<\/strong> such orders in his first term.<\/p>\n

When Biden and the Democrats returned to office, it fell back to 14<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That was not due to more modest measures.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Biden did precisely what Trump did in seeking to negate virtually all of his predecessors\u2019 orders and then seek sweeping new legal reforms. He was repeatedly found to have violated the Constitution, but there was no torrent of preliminary injunctions at the start of his term.<\/p>\n

Yet, when Trump returned to office, the number of national injunctions soared again in the first 100 days and surpassed the number for the entirety of Biden\u2019s term.<\/p>\n

This is a rare argument.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n

First, it is a shadow docket filing that usually results in summary decisions without oral argument. Moreover, this matter came after what is commonly viewed as the final day for oral arguments. The Court granted a rare late oral argument, reflecting that multiple justices view this matter sufficiently serious to warrant a break from standard operating procedures.<\/p>\n

Rather than arguing a \u201cquestion presented\u201d on birthright citizenship, the Administration is solely looking for limits on the district courts as appeals continue on the \u201cimportant constitutional questions\u201d raised by birthright citizenship.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Administration argues that the Constitution does not give judges the power to issue universal injunctions and that courts are limited to addressing the cases before them in a given district. The Administration acknowledges that class actions can create the basis for universal injunctions, offering a moderate resolution to the Court. In such cases, if the parties can meet the standard for a national class, they can seek a national or universal injunction.<\/p>\n

In today\u2019s arguments (which I will be covering for Fox and on X), we can expect to hear from justices who have previously been critical of universal injunctions, including Justice Clarence Thomas, who, in his concurring opinion in\u00a0Trump v. Hawaii<\/a><\/em>, called them \u201clegally and historically dubious.\u201d<\/p>\n

Likewise, Justices Gorsuch and Alito have criticized such injunctions. In a prior dissent to an emergency filing in Department of State v. AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition, Alito was joined by Thomas, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh in stating that the government \u201chas a strong argument that the District Court\u2019s order violates the principle that a federal court may not issue an equitable remedy that is \u2018more burdensome than necessary to\u2019 redress the plaintiff\u2019s injuries.\u201d<\/p>\n

Many of us will be watching three members the most closely: Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justices Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett. <\/strong>Roberts is the ultimate institutionalist, and we should see in his argument how he views the impact of such injunctions on the court system as a whole. He is very protective of the courts\u2019 inherent authority but may also have misgivings about the scope of these orders.<\/p>\n

During the Biden Administration, Justice Kagan has previously criticized universal injunctions. In an interview at Northwestern University Law School, Kagan flagged the \u201cforum shopping\u201d by litigants in filing cases before favorable courts:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cYou look at something like that and you think, that can\u2019t be right. In the Trump years, people used to go to the Northern District of California, and in the Biden years, they go to Texas. It just can\u2019t be right that one district judge can stop a nationwide policy in its tracks and leave it stopped for the years that it takes to go through the normal process.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Justice Barrett previously joined with Kavanaugh in stating that the power of district courts to enter a universal injunction \u201cis an important question that could warrant our review in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

The argument today will start at 10 am<\/strong> and I will be doing a running\u00a0review of the arguments on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n

U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer will argue the government\u2019s case.<\/p>\n

Jeremy Feigenbaum, New Jersey\u2019s solicitor general, will argue for the state and local governments and\u00a0 Kelsi Corkran, the Supreme Court director at Georgetown\u2019s Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection, will argue for the private individuals and groups.<\/p>\n

Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University where he teaches a course on the Supreme Court and the Constitution.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nThu, 05\/15\/2025 – 09:40<\/span><\/p>\n

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