The Supreme Court ruled limiting nationwide injunctions in a case about President Donald Trump’s birthright citizenship order a month ago, but courts are still finding ways to issue sweeping injunctions.
As lower courts continue to navigate the various lawsuits regarding Trump’s birthright citizenship order, which is poised to return to the Supreme Court on the merits in the near future, many are finding ways to offer a sweeping injunction blocking the order despite the Supreme Court narrowing the circumstances in which a universal injunction may be issued.
Class-action becomes the main avenue for sweeping injunctions
Since the Supreme Court restricted lower courts’ reliance on universal injunctions, opponents of the birthright citizenship order have increasingly turned to class action certification.
The justices discussed this alternative to a
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