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#nationwideinjunctions — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #nationwideinjunctions, aggregated by home.social.

  1. — $2 billion in congressionally appropriated #ForeignAid flowing through the #State Dept & #USAID frozen by #Trump

    — >25k children face deportation without lawyers because the admin cut off a contract that pays for their legal representation

    And that’s just a few of the cases with #NationwideInjunctions.

    #FuckSCOTUS #law #SCOTUS #Constitution #democracy #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #ExecutiveBranch #PresidentialPower #AbuseOfPower

  2. Still, #SCOTUS’ ruling doesn’t mean they will instantly evaporate. Experts say the next step is for individual courts to apply the new precedent in their own cases. In some instances, the #DOJ will likely challenge existing #NationwideInjunctions to see if they need to be pared back under the Supreme Court’s new precedent.

    #FuckSCOTUS #law #Constitution #democracy #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #Trump #ExecutiveBranch #PresidentialPower #AbuseOfPower

  3. District-court judges have repeatedly used #NationwideInjunctions to block #Trump admin policies, including to halt the #MassFirings of civil servants, the defunding of #ForeignAid & the relocation of #transgender women in #FederalPrisons to men’s housing. Some of those injunctions have been lifted by higher courts; many, including those detailed below, remain in place, …for now.

    #FuckSCOTUS #law #SCOTUS #Constitution #democracy #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #PresidentialPower #AbuseOfPower

  4. Friday’s ruling will lead to a drastic reduction in the #FederalCourts’ ability to check the White House, according to Judith Resnik, a professor at Yale Law School. #NationwideInjunctions give #courts “the capacity to tell the key nationwide actor, the #ExecutiveBranch, to behave lawfully,” she said.

    #FuckSCOTUS #law #SCOTUS #Constitution #democracy #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #Trump #PresidentialPower #AbuseOfPower