The conservative-led Supreme Court issues a sweeping ruling that limits judges' power to block President Trump's executive orders.

In a scathing dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor calls the decision an open invitation to bypass the Constitution.

From CBS News headquarters in New York, this is the CBS Evening News.

Good evening, everyone, and thanks for joining us.

I'm Jerica Duncan, in tonight for Maurice Dubois and John Dickerson.

The Supreme Court usually releases its most anticipated rulings over several weeks or days.

Not this year. Today, the court

released a half dozen of its biggest decisions. In its most closely watched case, the conservative

majority reigned in the power of individual federal judges to temporarily stop the nationwide

rollout of White House policies. The case involved a challenge to President

Trump's executive order to end birthright citizenship. The Supreme Court ruled six to three

that trial court judges do not have unlimited power to impose their rulings on everyone across the

country. Today's decision could reshape the separation of powers in the

United States government and emboldened the president to try to enact other policies that have

been temporarily blocked. Our chief legal correspondent, Jan Crawford, leads us off tonight from the

Supreme Court, Jan. Well, I'm Jerika, this is a big win, not only for President Trump, but for all presidents.

These nationwide injunctions, there are a relatively new phenomenon over the last decade or so.

Even President Biden, who, by the way, faced dozens of them from conservative judges blocking his policies nationwide,

had also urged the court to rein them in.

A jubilant President Trump said the ruling would clear the way for some of his challenged

executive orders to go forward. And instead of merely ruling on the immediate cases before them,

these judges have attempted to dictate the law for the entire nation.

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