The White House believes that the Supreme Court’s decision on nationwide injunctions doesn’t just hamper opposition to President Donald Trump’s executive orders — it could also break the levies currently holding them back.
The Supreme Court’s decision Friday upends the No. 1 legal resistance strategy against the White House: scoring temporary universal injunctions from trial judges across the country to stop administration policy. During a White House press conference immediately after its release, Trump made clear he’ll try to demolish the many orders that have held back some of his most controversial policies.
“Thanks to this decision, we can now properly file to proceed with these numerous policies and those that have been wrongly enjoined on a nationwide basis, including birthright citizenship, ending sanctuary city funding, suspending refugee resettlement, freezing unnecessary funding, stopping federal taxpayers from paying for transgender surgeries and numerous other priorities of the American people,” he said.