The Trump administration scored one of its biggest wins to date on Friday after the Supreme Court found that nationwide injunctions exceed the authority provided to the judiciary. President Donald Trump quickly responded by calling a press conference at the White House to take a well-deserved victory lap.
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Throughout Trump's second term, a handful of district court judges have used nationwide injunctions to stifle policy changes, often with very specious and highly political legal justification. As Justice Amy Coney Barrett noted in her blistering takedown of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who predictably dissented in the case, that had essentially turned the courts into an "imperial judiciary."
Instead of panicking, though, the Trump administration stayed the course, and with this decision will hopefully come just a bit more sanity and respect for the separation of powers in the legal process.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: "This morning, the Supreme Court has delivered a monumental victory for the Constitution, the separation of powers, and the rule of law." pic.twitter.com/UP35wpRbEN
— Conservative War Machine (@WarMachineRR) June 27, 2025
TRUMP: This morning, the Supreme Court has delivered a monumental victory for the Constitution, the separation of powers, and the rule of law in striking down the excessive use of nationwide injunctions to interfere with the normal functioning of the executive branch. The Supreme Court has stopped the presidency itself. That's what they've done, and really, it's been an amazing period of time this last hour. There are people elated all over the country, such happiness and spirit. Sometimes you don't see that, but this case is very important.
I was elected on a historic mandate, but in recent months, we've seen a handful of radical left judges effectively try to overrule the rightful powers of the president to stop the American people from getting the policies they voted for in record numbers. It was a grave threat to democracy, frankly, and instead of merely ruling on the immediate cases before them, these judges have attempted to dictate the law for the entire nation.
Attorney General Pam Bondi echoed that sentiment while providing more detail, noting that 35 out of the 40 nationwide injunctions came from "five liberal districts in the country."
WOW— @PamBondi outlines the STAGGERING facts regarding judicial overreach:
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) June 27, 2025
"Activist liberal justices have used these injunctions to block virtually all of President Trump’s policies. To put this in perspective, there are 94 federal judicial districts. 5 of those districts… pic.twitter.com/GvCMjnNbjO
This needed to happen. You can not have a small number of lower-court judges effectively making themselves president without mocking the very basis of elections. That doesn't mean the courts don't have a role as a check on the executive branch, but a proper, constitutionally limited process should be followed.
This recent rash of nationwide injunctions has spit on that notion by assuming that a single unelected district judge has the supreme power to overrule anything the president does and enforce his ruling across the country. That has led to left-wing activist groups venue shopping so they can wield a universal veto over the enumerated powers of the presidency. Hopefully, that is now largely curtailed.
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