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WASHINGTON, DC – Today, a conservative majority of the Supreme Court chose to make it considerably harder for Americans to challenge unconstitutional actions taken by President Donald Trump in federal courts. In response to today’s ruling, Accountable.US President Caroline Ciccone released the following statement:

“The Supreme Court’s decision not only sends the wrong signal about Donald Trump’s latest lawlessness — it also limits the power of courts and citizens to halt serious constitutional violations in the decades ahead. As Justice Sotomayor rightly stressed in her dissent, ‘[n]o right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates.’

“The timing of this decision is unmistakable: nationwide injunctions were apparently fine during the Biden Administration and before, but are suddenly unlawful when Trump came into office. That’s not how the law is supposed to work.

“More broadly, results like this are the result of a years-long takeover by Trump and special interest allies to capture the courts and install conservative majorities that help him advance an extreme ideological agenda. Let’s be clear: the Trump Administration appealed this case to undermine the power of federal judges, rather than address his blatantly unconstitutional executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship.”

Last month, Accountable.US released an investigation showing how Trump and top advisors, like Stephen Miller, have wrongly tried to claim trial court judges don’t have the authority to block his EOs despite having personally used nationwide injunctions to try to hamstring Democratic administrations’ executive actions for years. Miller’s America First Legal repeatedly requested and was granted nationwide injunctions, which thwarted parts of President Biden’s agenda from the very start of his Administration:

  • In August 2024, America First Legal requested a nationwide injunction to stop the Biden administration’s “parole in place” program, which would allow up to 550,000 people to receive temporary protections and work permits in the U.S.

  • In February 2023, America First Legal requested a nationwide injunction to stop the Biden administration’s CHNV program, which allowed immigrants from certain countries to legally work and live in the U.S. on parole.

  • In 2022, America First Legal claimed an “AFL victory” after a judge issued a nationwide injunction in a lawsuit challenging a vaccine mandate for federal employees (which was similar to one of AFL’s own lawsuits).

  • In April 2021, America First Legal requested a nationwide injunction to curtail immigration due to alleged public health concerns.

And it’s not just top Trump officials changing their tune; nearly every conservative-led state that requested nationwide injunctions against the Biden Administration signed on to amicus briefs in today’s case urging the Supreme Court to limit the authority of trial court judges to impose broad injunctive relief.

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