(WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump took a victory a lap on Friday after the Supreme Court limited nationwide injunctions issued by lower court judges against his executive order to effectively end birthright citizenship, ruling only the high court can provide universal relief against a policy.
“This was a big one, wasn’t it?” Trump said as he walked into the White House briefing room.
Trump and Bondi, though, praised the court’s conservative majority for limiting a federal judge’s power to universally block a president’s policy.
“I was elected on a historic mandate. 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’ve voted for in record numbers. It was a grave threat to democracy,” Trump said from the podium.
Trump specifically thanked Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who authored the opinion. Barrett’s drawn some ire from conservatives for staking out independent ground and at times breaking with Trump, who appointed her to the bench.
Trump on Friday said she wrote the decision “brilliantly.”
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