In Trump v. CASA, the Supreme Court significantly narrowed federal courts’ power to issue “universal” or “nationwide” injunctions—broad orders that bar the government from enforcing a policy against ...

On June 27, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court held in a 6-3 decision in Trump v. CASA, Inc. that federal courts lack the authority to issue universal injunctions under the Judiciary Act of 1789. In so ...

On January 23, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court granted the federal government’s request to stay the nationwide injunction issued in the Texas Top Cop Shop case against enforcing the Corporate ...

This is part of SCOTUSblog’s term in review series, in which scholars analyze some of the most significant cases of the 2024-25 Supreme Court term. The court has announced that one narrowly defined ...

The main issue addressed in yesterday's birthright citizenship oral argument before the Supreme Court was whether federal courts should have the power to issue nationwide injunctions against illegal ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday signaled deep uncertainty over how, or whether, to rein in the growing use of nationwide injunctions, a legal tool that has repeatedly stymied President Donald Trump’s ...

<UPDATE 5/19 Just a note to draw readers' attention to the 300+ comments that this post has received. It is a good illustration of one of the things I like most about the VC - I'm not aware of another ...