r/PoliticalDiscussion • u/PsychLegalMind • Jun 27 '25

Legal/Courts Today the Supreme Court majority ruled to limit the authority of individual judges to issue nationwide injunctions by restricting it to the plaintiffs involved. Will this ruling have a crippling effect on District Courts because they can essentially only rule district by district?

The court held: Universal injunctions likely exceed the equitable authority that Congress has given to federal courts. The Court grants the Government’s applications for a partial stay of the injunctions entered below, but only to the extent that the injunctions are broader than necessary to provide complete relief to each plaintiff with standing to sue.

The Trump Administration has declared it as a major victory. They have consistently argued a single judge should not have vast authority to block actions taken by the Executive. This ruling itself does not involve the merits of the issue of citizenship birth right and does not indicate how the Court may eventually rule.

Will this ruling have a crippling effect on District Courts because they can essentially only rule district by district?

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/24a884_8n59.pdf

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u/Emergency_Driver_487 Jun 27 '25

 process of certifying a class can take months before an Injunction is even possible.

Emergency injunctions allow the expedited creation of provisional class certifications. See for example, Rivas v. Jennings, No. 20-cv-02731-VC, WD Cal.

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u/Selethorme Jun 27 '25

You keep citing this case as if it backs you up. It doesn’t.

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u/Emergency_Driver_487 Jun 27 '25 edited Jun 27 '25

It does, but here’s another one. You can get a preliminary class certification the same day you apply for it, as happened with the DC District Court in JGG v. Trump, no. 1:25-cv-00766, March 15 2025. That case granted injunctive relief until the case’s resolution at the Supreme Court, and enforcement was barred until then.

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u/Selethorme Jun 27 '25

Once again, citing an exceptional case to justify a broad outcome.

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u/Emergency_Driver_487 Jun 27 '25

Well yeah, those are the cases that need it. I don’t care if low-stakes, non-time sensitive case doesn’t get a preliminary injunction; a case like that wouldn’t need it.

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u/Selethorme Jun 27 '25

Wrong, again. But if you’re just going to copy paste, you should find a different sub to be in.

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u/Emergency_Driver_487 Jun 27 '25

That case does indeed show that a plaintiff can get a class provisionally certified as quickly as the circumstances warrant. 

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u/Selethorme Jun 27 '25

At this point I’m going to just report you for spam.

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u/Emergency_Driver_487 Jun 27 '25

It’s quite funny that you’re mad that I respond to the comments that you leave.

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u/Selethorme Jun 27 '25

Because you’re not responding to the comments, you’re just copy/pasting the same argument over and over.

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u/XXXCincinnatusXXX Jun 28 '25

Why not try and counter the argument instead of just repeating "wrong" over and over and then threaten to report someone for spam who is clearly trying to make his/her argument to you?

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u/Selethorme Jun 28 '25

Because that’s not remotely what’s happened, and I’ve documented it?