AG Bondi Makes Big Announcement After Big Supreme Court Ruling

Attorney General Pam Bondi celebrated a pair of historic wins at the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday.

“Today, the Supreme Court instructed district courts to STOP the endless barrage of nationwide injunctions against President Trump. This would not have been possible without tireless work from our excellent lawyers
@TheJusticeDept and our Solicitor General John Sauer. This Department of Justice will continue to zealously defend @POTUS’s policies and his authority to implement them,” Bondi wrote on X.

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The Supreme Court shut down federal judges’ authority to prevent executive acts throughout the country via national injunctions.

The court’s 6-3 decision, with all six GOP-appointed justices in the majority, is a significant setback for those pursuing legal challenges to President Donald Trump’s executive orders and other actions, many of which have been blocked or temporarily put on hold by nationwide injunctions.

Nationwide, or universal, injunctions prohibit the government from enforcing a law, rule, or policy across the United States, not simply against the individual parties engaged in the litigation or in the districts where they are granted.

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In other words, federal district courts can no longer issue national injunctions affecting everyone.

They can only issue injunctions affecting the plaintiffs before them.

Separately, the Supreme Court issued its ruling on President Trump’s early executive order ending birthright citizenship for the children of illegal immigrants.

Trump has scored a big win in the Birthright Citizenship Case. Not on the merits, but on whether a universal injunction is permitted. This is hugely significant in every case with universal injunctions.

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Senior Legal Correspondent Margot Cleveland explained what this means: “The US Supreme Court allows Trump’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship to go into effect in some areas of the country for now by curtailing federal judges’ ability to block the president’s policies nationwide.”

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case in May after three lower federal courts have issued nationwide injunctions against the order’s implementation.

In an executive order signed on Inauguration Day, Trump declared that the 14th Amendment provision granting U.S. citizenship to children born on American soil applies only to those with at least one parent who is a citizen or permanent resident.

If it were to be implemented, Trump’s policy would deny citizenship at birth to an estimated 255,000 babies born annually in the U.S. to illegal immigrants or temporary visa holders, according to the Migration Policy Institute.

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Under the 14th Amendment, ratified in 1868, “all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.” For over a century, this text has been interpreted to grant citizenship at birth to all individuals except for children of foreign diplomats, the WSJ reported.

But proponents of Trump’s order argued that the historical context of the amendment was to grant citizenship to the children of former slaves and that the provision has since been abused by illegal migrants who exploit it to gain a foothold in the U.S. by having a child on American soil.

Trump’s executive order is also based on the argument that illegal immigrants are not “subject to the jurisdiction” of the U.S. for citizenship purposes, meaning their children should not be granted citizenship at birth.

The White House asserts that the citizenship clause was designed to overturn the Supreme Court’s infamous 1857 decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford, which ruled that black people could not be citizens, but did not extend citizenship to foreigners without permanent legal residency.

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In 1995, in response to proposed legislation that would eliminate birthright citizenship for children of unauthorized immigrants, the Justice Department advised that such a change would require a constitutional amendment. However, Trump has long speculated about the possibility of restricting birthright citizenship.