The ruling? It’s not happening anymore.
In a major win for President Trump, and the country, the Supreme Court, by a vote of 6 – 3 (the three being always-left Sotomayor, Kagan and Jackson) have ended Democrats’ strategy of shopping for Federal Court judges who issue nationwide injunctions which inhibit President Trump from acting as President.
The ruling, very simply and clearly, states that doing so exceeds the jurisdiction of Federal Court judges – which was always understood until Trump came along.
(I don’t think there is any truth to the rumor that Judge Boasberg is on a suicide watch.)
One other thing. In her dissent, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote…
”The Court’s decision to permit the Executive to violate the Constitution with respect to anyone who has not yet sued is an existential threat to the rule of law.” She derided the Court’s cited precedents in common law at the Founding as “inapt comparisons to impotent English tribunals.”
…to which Justice Amy Coney Barrett, writing the majority view, wrote:
“We will not dwell on JUSTICE JACKSON’s argument, which is at odds with more than two centuries’ worth of precedent, not to mention the Constitution itself. We observe only this: JUSTICE JACKSON decries an imperial Executive while embracing an imperial Judiciary.”
If that’s not a smackdown – a hard, solid, major-league one – I don’t know what is.
