Re: Nationwide injunctions

Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

6/28/2025 1:53 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

Trump challenged three nationwide injunctions blocking enforcement of
his executive order ending birthright citizenship.

Most such injunctions will end although I think there are exceptions I
don't understand. These can be filed as class actions but the Supreme
Court earlier in John Roberts' tenure made it extremely difficult to
file as a class, hence the nationwide injunctions.

I'm a bit sympathetic to Trump's argument that plaintiffs seeking
equitable relief will jurisdiction shop and the government must defend
case after case after case.

And Republicans try to get their cases heard in Texas because the judges
there are the most friendly to them.

As I said below, Republicans have lost such leverage.

btw it's because Texas has those unique subdistricts to which a single
judge is assigned. File in that subdistrict for equitable relief, you
actually know the judge that will rule on your petition. File in the
main district court, the judge would be randomly assigned.

No other state has this.

However, there should be nationwide injunctions allowed against the
government without jurisdiction shopping. Last I looked, Washington
remains the seat of government. Give that district court exclusive
authority so the government might defend one case and not myriad cases.
Congress would have to fix that.

By the way, this affected the administrations of Democratic presidents
too, so Republicans are losing plenty of political leverage.

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