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🗓️ 27 June 2025
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the News Hour. The U.S. Supreme Court delivered a major decision today, one that will limit federal judges' power to block the president's agenda nationwide. |
0:10.2 | The decision which resulted from a case related to an executive order on birthright citizenship rules that individual judges cannot grant nationwide injunctions to block any policies coming from the White House. |
0:22.7 | The court ruled six to three along partisan lines. In her opinion, Justice Amy Coney-Barritt wrote, |
0:28.0 | no one disputes that the executive has a duty to follow the law, but the judiciary does not have |
0:33.4 | unbridled authority to enforce this obligation. In fact, sometimes the law prohibits the |
0:38.6 | judiciary from doing so. The justices did not rule on the merits of the Trump administration's |
0:44.0 | restrictions on birthright citizenship, but the president welcomed the ruling during a press |
0:48.6 | briefing today. Thanks to this decision, we can now properly file to proceed with these numerous policies |
0:57.0 | and those that have been wrongly enjoined on a nationwide basis, including birthright citizenship, |
1:03.0 | ending sanctuary, city funding, suspending refugee resettlement, freezing unnecessary funding, |
1:10.0 | stopping federal taxpayers from paying for |
1:12.6 | transgender surgeries and numerous other priorities of the American people. |
1:17.6 | The Justice has also ruled on four other cases today, one upholding a key provision of the Affordable |
1:23.6 | Care Act, another upholding a Texas law requiring age verification for pornography |
1:29.2 | sites, one related to internet and phone service to rural and low-income communities, and a case |
1:35.7 | involving LGBTQ-themed books in schools. For more, we're joined now by our Supreme Court |
1:41.7 | analyst and SCOTUS blog co-founder Amy Howe and Amanda Frost, |
1:45.7 | Professor of Immigration and Citizenship Law at the University of Virginia. |
1:49.7 | Thank you both for being here. |
1:51.2 | Thank you. |
1:51.9 | So, Amy, the Supreme Court siding with the Trump administration on nationwide injunctions, |
1:56.8 | walk us through what that means in practice. |
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