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Breaking: U.S. Supreme Court rules against ‘universal injunctions’

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by Guy Page

The Supreme Court of the United States ruled today, June 27, that federal courts likely lack the authority to issue “universal injunctions”—sweeping orders that block government policies against everyone, not just the specific parties involved in a lawsuit. 

The landmark decision came in a case involving challenges to President Donald J. Trump’s Executive Order No. 14160, which sought to redefine American citizenship based on parents’ immigration status. 

Writing for the majority, Justice Amy Coney Barrett stated that universal injunctions “likely exceed the equitable authority that Congress has granted to federal courts” through the Judiciary Act of 1789. 

Judge Clarence Thomas concurred: ‘The Court today holds that federal courts may not issue so-called universal injunctions. I agree and join in full. As the Court explains, the Judiciary Act of 1789—the statute that “‘authorizes the federal courts to issue equitable remedies’”—does not permit universal injunctions. It authorizes only those remedies traditionally available in equity, and there is no historical tradition allowing courts to provide “relief that extend[s] beyond the parties.’’


Dissenting Voices – Justice Sotomayor, joined by Justices Kagan and Jackson, filed a strong dissent, asserting that the Executive Order is “patently unconstitutional.” She emphasized that the lower courts correctly determined that universal injunctions were “necessary to provide complete relief to the plaintiffs” in these cases, especially the States facing financial injuries and administrative burdens due to the cross-border movement of children.


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  1. Yeah !!!! It’s about time that the Major League put their farm teams on notice !

  2. Balint won’t like the rulings.
    While the thought is in the mind note that she speaks at Town Hall Meetings. Obviously she was invited. If a town invites her, that indicates the mindset of that town very liberal and has strange values. If towns never invite her to their sessions that would indicate she’s not welcome and should get lost. Also people can boycott the towns that do invite. Business will drop. The power of the purse and feet.

  3. While not typically a fan of Mitch McConnell, I feel forever in his debt for denying that creep Merrick Garland a seat on the Supreme Court…

    • Not to worry about that, with THIS President. It was the last president who was the “vaccine fascist”, or at least the person operating the autopen was.

    • Susan, interesting point. Although we might be safe with this President, we never know if we will have a vaxx fascist in power in the future.

      Alan Cunningham Operation Warp Speed was for “vaccine” development, not a vaccination mandate. Trump said several times people need to choose whether to get the jab.

  4. Trump had virtually no choices at that point. He was essentially checkmated with everything arrayed against him at that stage in his presidency. No matter what he did regarding COVID, it would have been determined to have been wrong by those hellbent on removing him from office and trying to prevent him from getting back in. In fact, the whole thing was orchestrated to make him look like the bad guy in some form or fashion, as well as to legitimize mail-in ballots which could then be rigged to steal the election from him, which they did.

    They thought they’d succeeded until the dark side overplayed its hand, honest citizens became vigilant to stop the steal, and Trump and the majority of the American people overwhelmingly defeated whoever it was that the evil actors ostensibly chose as a candidate to run against him.

    It’s also important to remember that even many well-intentioned and discerning patriots initially went along with some of the coercive mandates because it was uncharted territory to a large degree. It took some of us a little longer to get wise and become more astute to some of the nuances of the absolute fabrication Fauxci and the FAUXVID scamdemic proved to be.

    • So if he won the 2020 election, where is the proof? I totally agree that COVID was a scam perpetuated by the govt, that Biden was body swapped a LONG time ago, but the election fraud stuff I don’t believe, and neither did the courts of the United States of America.

    • The point, Mr. Cunningham, is that with current election governance no one can prove, one way or the other, whether or not the 2020 election was stolen. After all, there are many instances of proven 2020 voter fraud. The most recent being the Chinese Communist Party having counterfeited thousands of drivers licenses to aid in fraudulent voter registrations, not to mention the Judicial Watch investigations resulting in the removal of more than 5 million illegal voter registrations nationwide.

      Does this prove the 2020 election was stolen? No. But can you prove that the 2020 election was the safest and most secure in U. S. history? No.

      The bottom line: Fix our election process. Require voter ID. No mail-in balloting (other than the traditional absentee vote process) and count only those votes received by the close of the polls on election day.

  5. “So if he won the 2020 election, where is the proof?”

    Alan,
    Here are a couple of documentaries which reveal that the 2020 election was stolen from the American people and how this was accomplished.

    https://youtu.be/wkCtDhqZfa4?si=mHWlBhviRaKLiVnu

    https://youtu.be/4ck-LsfhBp0?si=2xiastTwDkVbQ2VY

    https://rumble.com/v349eqw-capitol-punishment-by-nick-searcy-and-chris-burgard.html

    And Mr. Eshelman’s comments above about how the Chinese are complicit in the 2020 election steal are also further smoking gun evidence.