Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas appeared on Thursday to support Donald Trump’s push to curtail the power of federal judges.
The situation unfolded during Supreme Court arguments over an executive order signed by Trump that aimed to deny birthright citizenship to children born in the United States to non-citizen or non-permanent resident parents.
The Department of Justice has argued that judges on lower-level courts should only have the power to issue rulings on a specific group of people involved in a suit, and not issue nationwide injunctions.
Justice Thomas appeared to support that argument when discussing the history of universal injunctions with Solicitor General D. John Sauer. Justice Thomas asked: “So, we survived until the 1960s without universal injunctions?”
Its never happened because its never been so obvious for a lower court to rule in favour of the constitution
Its like being upset a case asking “if grass is green” didnt make it to the supreme court. If a lower court determines “yes, grass IS green” then the supreme court should get the same ruling and can avoid the extra case/escalation unless its appealed