This is very simplified. It’s more like the SCOTUS prevented a lower court from checking the Presidents’ and the Executive’s power and authority while the case is still unfolding in the courts.
They’ve already established before, that only the SCOTUS and Congress have authority to check the President. This is a continuation of that.
So, birthright citizen ship cases just got orders of magnitude more difficult to defend, and the same with preventing the current POTUS from ripping up the constitution on any given day.
Even this can use some aditional context. SCOTUS took away a tool, nationwide injunctions, that judges were using to pause executive actions by presidents in both parties. They said that a class action was more appropriate, and a District Court judge has already certified a class for people affected by the birthright citizenship EO, and its accompanying injunction should go into effect by the end of the week.
This SCOTUS has been insanely cowardly in not taking on this stuff head-on, but I do tend to think that that other than Thomas and Alito, they think much of this shit is unconstitutional, so they’re intentionally slow-playing it with narrow rulings, hoping the mid-terms and public opinion will save them from having to piss off Papa Trump and the MAGAs. It’s disgraceful because it’s hurting the country and real people, but hopefully it’s not unfixable in a structural sense.
This is very simplified. It’s more like the SCOTUS prevented a lower court from checking the Presidents’ and the Executive’s power and authority while the case is still unfolding in the courts.
They’ve already established before, that only the SCOTUS and Congress have authority to check the President. This is a continuation of that.
So, birthright citizen ship cases just got orders of magnitude more difficult to defend, and the same with preventing the current POTUS from ripping up the constitution on any given day.
Even this can use some aditional context. SCOTUS took away a tool, nationwide injunctions, that judges were using to pause executive actions by presidents in both parties. They said that a class action was more appropriate, and a District Court judge has already certified a class for people affected by the birthright citizenship EO, and its accompanying injunction should go into effect by the end of the week.
This SCOTUS has been insanely cowardly in not taking on this stuff head-on, but I do tend to think that that other than Thomas and Alito, they think much of this shit is unconstitutional, so they’re intentionally slow-playing it with narrow rulings, hoping the mid-terms and public opinion will save them from having to piss off Papa Trump and the MAGAs. It’s disgraceful because it’s hurting the country and real people, but hopefully it’s not unfixable in a structural sense.