The US Supreme Court has limited the powers of individual federal judges to publish national preliminary prohibitions that block the decisions of President Donald Trump.
Six of the nine judges of the Supreme Court ruled that the courts of the lower instances have no right to issue universal prohibitions on the execution of decrees aimed at restricting the provision of citizenship by birth right.
“The issue facing us is concerned with the means of legal protection: whether the federal courts have authority in accordance with the Law on the Judicial System of 1789 for universal prohibitions. Although the universal ban can be justified as the exercise of equal powers, Congress did not provide such authority to the federal courts,” the decision prepared by the judge EMI Koni Barrett.
At the same time, the Supreme Court did not make a decision, by the essence of the legality of the decree of Trump, canceling the provision of citizenship by law. Three liberal judges said that the decree is clearly illegal.
The decision under consideration combines three cases related to Trump’s decree, signed on the first day of his second presidential term, which provides for a refusal to citizenship for children born in the United States with short -term visas or without legal status.
The courts of lower instances in Maryland, Massachusetsets and Washington previously issued national prohibitions on the execution of the Decree, however, the Trump administration appealed to the Supreme Court with a complaint about abuse of authority.
The decision of the Supreme Court will have large -scale consequences of both in the short term and the long term, since it will affect over 300 federal claims filed against the White House policy during the second term of Trump.