Hi there, everyone. Happy Friday. It's 4 o'clock in the East. Quote, an existential threat to the rule of law.

Rarely has the liberal wing of the United States Supreme Court sounded as alarmed about the direction of the country and the court as it does right now.

The justices referring to the decision handed down today by the Supreme Court in the

birthright citizenship case.

In a 6-3 ruling, the Supreme Court curbed the ability of lower court judges to issue

nationwide injunctions.

Now, those are basically rulings that stop things, illegal things, rulings that block policies from going into place nationwide.

Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney-Barritt, writing for the conservative majority, said that nationwide injunctions are an overreach of judicial power.

And she writes this, quote, when a court concludes that the executive branch has acted unlawfully,

the answer is not for the court to exceed its power too. Now, the judges didn't rule on the

substance of all this. They didn't render a decision on the merits of Donald Trump's decision

to end birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented

immigrants.

Instead, what the court did today was to rule on the process piece of this.

They ruled that judges can only issue decisions or rulings that deliver relief for the group

of people involved, for the people who sued the plaintiffsiffs and that they could not block that policy

from going to affect nationwide for anyone else who might be affected by the policy.

Here's how Justice Katanji Brown Jackson puts it.

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. It is important to recognize that the executives bid to banquish so-called

universal injunctions is at bottom a request for this court's permission to engage in unlawful

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