From: Dhu on Gate <campbell@neotext.ca>
Newsgroups: can.politics,alt.politics,alt.politics.usa.republican
Subject: Re: Major win for Democracy!
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2025 00:00:43 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On Sat, 28 Jun 2025 09:21:16 -0400, NoBody wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Jun 2025 00:35:03 -0400, Anonymous <anon@anon.net> wrote:
>
>>Alan wrote:
>>> On 2025-06-27 10:20, NoBody wrote:
>>>> Judges can no longer abuse their power:
>>>>
>>>> "President Donald Trump celebrated after the Supreme Court moved to
>>>> block lower courts from issuing universal injunctions, something that
>>>> had impacted his executive orders.
>>>>
>>>> The president held a news conference just over an hour after the
>>>> ruling was issued and said the Supreme Court had stopped a "colossal
>>>> abuse of power."
>>>>
>>>> "I was elected on a historic mandate, but in recent months, we've
>>>> seen a handful of radical left judges effectively try to overrule the
>>>> rightful powers of the president to stop the American people from
>>>> getting the policies that they voted for in record numbers," Trump
>>>> said on Friday.
>>>>
>>>> Trump also accused lower court judges of trying to "dictate the law
>>>> for the entire nation" rather than ruling on the cases before them.
>>>>
>>>> On Friday, Supreme Court Justices ruled 6-3 to allow the lower courts
>>>> to issue injunctions only in limited instances, though the ruling
>>>> leaves open the question of how the ruling will apply to the
>>>> birthright citizenship order at the heart of the case."
>>>>
>>>> https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-celebrates-supreme-court-
limits-
>>>> colossal-abuse-power-federal-judges
>>>>
>>>> Count down for Lying Lee and Bradley's whining commences.
>>>
>>> Wow. You read poorly. Or perhaps it's just that you trusted Fox News
>>> to get it right?
>>>
>>> The USSC only said federal district courts can't issue NATIONWIDE
>>> injunctions.
>>>
>>> And how is it a "win for democracy" that a court can grant an
>>> injunction in one part of the country that doesn't apply in other
>>> parts of the country...
>>>
>>> ...operating under the same federal laws?
>>
>>Congress never authorized lower federal courts to issue such nationwide
>>injunctions. The Supreme Court's majority opinion was correct.
>
> This is clearly lost on Alan.
I theenk the problem is overrated. Traditionally, lower courts rulings
apply to (set precedent for) all the courts of similar stature. It then
takes a higher court to over-rule, erasing the precedent but not
necessarily the specific judgement.
Dhu
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