Overview

• The Justice Department is preparing to ask lower courts to revisit the scope of roughly 48 nationwide injunctions that have halted Trump administration policies.
• President Trump has announced plans to promptly move forward with previously enjoined measures, including suspending refugee resettlement, freezing certain funding and barring federal payment for transgender surgeries.
• The ruling sends the birthright citizenship disputes back to trial courts for reconsideration while delaying enforcement of the policy for at least 30 days.
• Although future universal injunctions remain possible, the opinion raises procedural hurdles that are likely to steer litigants toward class actions and challenges under the Administrative Procedure Act.
• Observers say the new standard could lead to a patchwork of state-by-state rulings and alter how courts check executive authority.