The Trump DOJ Tells SCOTUS Its Plan to Ignore the Courts

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Thursday in a monumental battle over Donald Trump’s executive order stripping birthright citizenship from the children of many immigrants.

The justices barely discussed the constitutional question at the heart of the case; instead, they devoted most of the session to a debate about the three “universal injunctions” currently blocking Trump 's policy nationwide.

The administration's brash claims may have reminded the justices why these tools are so crucial in the first place.

The Supreme Court gave the president all the tools to bigfoot the judiciary, and now he’s doing it.

The most Solicitor general could promise is that they would “generally”—though not always—abide by circuit court judgments.

If it is true that lower court decisions apply only to the named plaintiffs, the government need not respect them as to other parties.