From the start of his presidency, Donald Trump was stymied by nationwide injunctions. Seemingly every time Trump sought to impose a new policy, a federal judge would stop him by issuing an injunction that prohibited enforcement anywhere by anyone. In 2018, Attorney General Jeff Sessions directed Justice Department lawyers to argue in court that these injunctions “exceed the constitutional limitations on judicial power.” His successor, William Barr, declared outright war on nationwide injunctions, condemning them as unconstitutional and “inconsistent with our American legal system.” Trump’s solicitor general, Noel Francisco, urged the Supreme Court to forbid nationwide injunctions, to no avail. Trump himself denounced them. Republican lawmakers sponsoredbills to outlaw them. All the while, conservative commentators railedagainst “resistance judges” who thwarted Trump’s agenda by blocking his policies in full rather than limiting their decisions to the parties before th
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