President Donald Trump thanked the Supreme Court on Friday for its decision to limit the ability of federal judges to issue nationwide injunctions — the latest win for a president who handpicked three of the conservative justices.
“I want to just thank again the Supreme Court for this ruling. It’s a giant,” Trump told reporters in the briefing room, joined by Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche. “It’s a giant, and they should be very proud, and our country should be very proud of the Supreme Court today.”
The opinion by Justice Amy Coney Barrett, in a case stemming from Trump’s executive order reinterpreting birthright citizenship, focused on federal judges’ ability to implement nationwide injunctions. SCOTUS ruled that a district judge could block the federal government from targeting the plaintiff, but the nationwide injunctions that expand that ruling to the entire class of affected people likely can’t happen.