Fact vs. freakout on the SCOTUS universal injunctions ruling.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.7 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
On Friday, the Supreme Court voted 6–3 to partially pause rulings by federal judges blocking President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship. The decision did not weigh the constitutionality of the executive order but dealt solely with federal courts issuing universal injunctions, which prohibit the government from enforcing a law or policy anywhere in the country. The court’s majority repudiated such orders but left open the possibility that lawsuits brought by states could challenge Trump’s executive order.
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| 1:00.2 | I'm your host, Isaac Saul, and on today's episode, we're going to be talking about the Supreme Court's ruling on Friday in Trump v. Casa, where they've basically limited the use of nationwide or |
| 1:16.6 | universal injunctions. We're going to talk about exactly what happened, what the case does |
| 1:22.2 | and doesn't do, which there seems to be quite a bit of misconceptions about. And as always, I'll share a bit of my take here. |
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