🚨 By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court rules that universal injunctions likely exceed federal courts' authority

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6. As others have noted, this is NOT a ruling on birthright citizenship.

SCOTUS says lower courts cannot issue nationwide injunctions, but, as they have ruled in separate cases, may issue injunctions affecting only their districts/jurisdictions.

They have not ruled on whether Trump can reject birthright citizenship, as that was not the question in this case. The question of the constitutionality of ignoring/rejecting/overturning birthright citizenship has yet to come before the court.

What this ruling does is set the stage for chaos, as ICE continues to terrorize, detain and deport people as they choose, whether they are citizens or not. ICE can continue to act with impunity in districts where lower courts have not issued injunctions.

Let’s hope the lower courts act swiftly to reign in ICE, and that appeals specific to birthright citizenship make their way to SCOTUS by next session (would be nice to have the Roberts court weigh in before the midterms, just so voters know if their passports are worth the paper they’re printed on).