President Donald Trump addresses reporters in the White House briefing room after the Supreme Court ruled on the birthright citizenship case, June 27, 2025. (REUTERS/Ken Cedeno)
SCOTUS RULES ON TRUMP'S BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP ORDER, TESTING LOWER COURT POWERS
Trump also accused lower court judges of trying to "dictate the law for the entire nation" rather than ruling on the cases before them.
On Friday, Supreme Court Justices ruled 6-3 to allow the lower courts to issue injunctions only in limited instances, though the ruling leaves open the question of how the ruling will apply to the birthright citizenship order at the heart of the case.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media, after the U.S. Supreme Court dealt a blow to the power of federal judges by restricting their ability to grant broad legal relief in cases as the justices acted in a legal fight over President Donald Trump's bid to limit birthright citizenship, in the Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington D.C., June 27, 2025. (REUTERS/Ken Cedeno)
"The applications do not raise – and thus we do not address – the question whether the Executive Order violates the Citizenship Clause or Nationality Act," Justice Amy Coney Barrett said, writing for the majority. "The issue before us is one of remedy: whether, under the Judiciary Act of 1789, federal courts have equitable authority to issue universal injunctions."
"A universal injunction can be justified only as an exercise of equitable authority, yet Congress has granted federal courts no such power," she added.
Coney Barrett took a swipe at Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, saying that her argument was " at odds with more than two centuries’ worth of precedent, not to mention the Constitution itself. We observe only this: [Jackson] decries an imperial Executive while embracing an imperial Judiciary."
In her dissent, Jackson warned that the ruling allowed the president to "violate the Constitution" and presented "an existentia threat to the rule of law."
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