Supreme Court curbs injunctions that blocked Trump's birthright citizenship plan

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15. Sotomayor: "travesty for the rule of the law"; Brown Jackson: "existential threat to the rule of law"

The SC majority reverses a long-standing practice - only when it has become inconvenient to King Trump, and when lower courts had ruled on the blatant unconstitutionality of Trump's actions:

Liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor read a summary of her dissent from the bench in the courtroom, saying the ruling was a "travesty for the rule of the law" and an "open invitation to bypass the constitution."

Federal courts "will be hamstrung" when it comes to nationwide injunctions but she urged potential plaintiffs to immediately file class action lawsuits, a legal avenue the court left open.

In a separate dissenting opinion, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote that the decision was “an existential threat to the rule of law.”

More from Sotomayor:

Sotomayor: Trump knew his birthright citizenship order was unconstitutional, so he went after the universal injunctions.

"The gamesmanship in this request is apparent and the Government makes no attempt to hide it. Yet, shamefully, this Court plays along." www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

— Adam Klasfeld (@klasfeldreports.com) 2025-06-27T14:16:41.181Z

"The gamesmanship in this request is apparent and the Government makes no attempt to hide it. Yet, shamefully, this Court plays along. A majority of this Court decides that these, of all cases, provide the appropriate occasion to resolve the question of universal injunctions and end the centuries-old practice once and for all. In its rush to do so the Court disregards basic principles of equity as well as the long history of injunctive relief granted to non-parties."

Sotomayor: "No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates. ... Because I will not be complicit in so grave an attack on our system of law, I dissent."

— Adam Klasfeld (@klasfeldreports.com) 2025-06-27T14:22:18.676Z

""No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates. ... Because I will not be complicit in so grave an attack on our system of law, I dissent."