Overview

• The Supreme Court’s June 27 ruling limited lower courts’ power to issue universal nationwide injunctions, allowing such relief only in class-action and administrative-law cases.
• After the decision, the administration filed motions in dozens of lower courts to lift injunctions blocking policies on birthright citizenship, sanctuary city funding cuts, refugee resettlement, federal workforce reductions and transgender health services.
• On July 2, U.S. District Judge Randolph D. Moss blocked and stayed for 14 days the administration’s asylum-ban proclamation, finding it exceeded presidential authority under the Immigration and Nationality Act and setting up an appeal.
• Lawyers challenging Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order have sought class-action certification to secure nationwide relief under the Supreme Court’s carve-out.
• Democratic attorneys general and immigrant rights groups are preparing new appeals and alternative legal strategies to defend their challenges across multiple jurisdictions.