The Supreme Court on May 15 grappled with how far federal judges could go in issuing sweeping blocks on policies such as President Donald Trump’s order restricting birthright citizenship.
Their comments came during oral argument over the administration’s request that the high court remove three nationwide injunctions on Trump’s order.
Those nationwide blocks are among the many issued by federal judges that have halted a range of Trump administration policies.
U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer, who argued for the Trump administration, told the justices that nationwide injunctions had been used in ways that exceeded judges’ authority under Article III of the Constitution. More specifically, he and others have criticized nationwide injunctions for granting relief on a broad basis rather than just for the parties before the court….