Preview: Colleague Richard Epstein comments on the SCOTUS hearing oral arguments re the authority of judges to issue temporary restraining orders nationwide. More
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 3 May 2025
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1923 SCOTUS
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| 0:25.9 | So now you can keep up with the Joneses and the Evanses and the Patel's. |
| 0:30.7 | This is John Batchel. |
| 0:31.9 | Colleague Richard Epstein of Civitas comments on the case coming before the Supreme Court in the middle of May oral arguments, |
| 0:39.8 | does a federal district judge have the authority to issue a temporary restraining order for the whole |
| 0:45.5 | nation or just the people standing in front of them with the complaint? The court can decide this, |
| 0:53.2 | and Richard has his own opinion of how the Trump administration, |
| 0:57.1 | which is advancing that the federal district court is too grand, too regional, too national. |
| 1:06.5 | Richard believes that the administration will win through. |
| 1:11.4 | However, he has a caveat. |
| 1:13.5 | Here's Richard Epstein about the TRO nationwide versus just your district or region for the judge |
| 1:22.6 | or in the case of a federal bench for the ninth or the fifth circuit. |
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