US Supreme Court ruling limits district judges' power against Donald Trump's orders, president calls it 'GIANT WIN'

In a major step towards US President Donald Trump's move to block birthright citizenship in America, the US Supreme Court on Friday restricted district judges’ power to impose injunctions on his orders, on a nationwide basis.

The ruling comes amid Trump's emergency appeal made to the US Supreme Court after lower court justices challenged the legality of the birthright citizenship policy.

In a historic 6-3 ruling, a nine-member Supreme Court bench granted a request by the White House to modify the scope of three injunctions issued by federal judges in Maryland, Massachusetts and Washington, as per a Guardian report.

However, the ruling, written by conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett, has not yet let the birthright citizenship go into effect, nor did it clarify the policy’s legality, leading to a lot of uncertainty.

The bench also said that Trump's executive order could not take effect until 30 days after the ruling on Friday.

"No one disputes that the Executive has a duty to follow the law. But the Judiciary does not have unbridled authority to enforce this obligation - in fact, sometimes the law prohibits the Judiciary from doing so," Barrett wrote, as per a Reuters report.

Calling it a “GIANT WIN” for the United States Supreme Court in a Truth Social post, Trump explained in a White House press conference later on that he would “promptly file to proceed with these numerous policies”, referring to the birthright citizenship policy, as well as various others that had been slapped with injunctions from lower courts.

“Birthright citizenship has been settled constitutional law for more than a century,” he said in a statement. “By denying lower courts the ability to enforce that right uniformly, the Court has invited chaos, inequality, and fear,” explained Krish O’Mara Vignarajah, president and CEO of Global Refuge, a non-profit collective that supports refugees and migrants entering the US, as per an Associated Press report.

Nationwide injunctions had become a key brake on Trump’s efforts to dramatically reshape the US government, frustrating him and his allies.

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