President Donald Trump celebrated the Supreme Court’s decision to ban lower courts from issuing nationwide injunctions.
Trump championed the ruling in remarks during a news conference held shortly after the decision was released, the Washington Examiner reported.
District courts have been thwarting Trump’s agenda on many fronts by issuing sweeping injunctions against his policies.
This particular case before the Supreme Court dealt with the issue of birthright citizenship.
In one of Trump’s first executive orders, he sought to limit the practice that grants automatic citizenship to anyone born on U.S. soil.
While the high court didn’t rule on the underlying issue, it concluded that lower courts may not impose nationwide injunctions, a move that is sure to rock Washington, D.C., leftists who tried to stop him.
Trump hailed Friday’s decision as a significant win for his presidency during the White House news briefing.
“This morning, the Supreme Court has delivered a monumental victory for the Constitution, the separation of powers, and the rule of law,” Trump began.
“I was elected on a historic mandate.
“But in recent months, we’ve seen a handful of radical left judges effectively try to overrule the rightful powers of the president, to stop the American people from getting the policies that they voted for in record numbers.
“It was a grave threat to democracy, frankly,” Trump went on.
“And instead of merely ruling on the immediate cases before them, these judges have attempted to dictate the law for the entire nation,” Trump said of the lower courts.
“In practice, this meant that if any one of the nearly 700 federal judges disagreed with the policy of a duly elected president of the United States, he or she could block that policy from going into effect, or at least delay it for many years, tied up in the court system.
“This was a colossal abuse of power, which never occurred in American history prior to recent decades.
“And we’ve been hit with more nationwide injunctions than were issued in the entire 20th century together…
“I’m grateful to the Supreme Court for stepping in and solving this very, very big and complex problem.
“And they’ve made it very simple,” Trump said.
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As part of the crackdown on immigration, Trump has sought to close the birthright citizenship loophole.
This allows for chain migration of other family members who would become eligible for citizenship based on one baby born in the U.S., even if to illegal immigrant parents, NBC News reported.
Trump noted that the provision was originally “meant for the babies of slaves” and not “for people trying to scam the system and come into the country on a vacation.”
Although the Supreme Court left the underlying issue alone, Trump acknowledged that the decision has far-reaching implications.
The president said he can now focus on “ending sanctuary city funding, suspending refugee resettlement, freezing unnecessary funding, stopping federal taxpayers from paying for transgender surgeries, and numerous other priorities of the American people.”
Trump went on to thank the Supreme Court justices.
“It’s a giant,” he said of the win they handed him.
“It’s a giant, and they should be very proud, and our country should be very proud of the Supreme Court today,” Trump concluded his remarks.
The Supreme Court did the right thing in acknowledging the role of district courts and the limits of their power.
Trump has notched quite a win, and it is only just beginning.
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