The Supreme Court fought Thursday with the complaints of the Trump administration according to which federal judges exceeded their authority to temporarily blocks some of its political movements for the whole country.
Several of the judges appeared torn between two concerns. They seemed to be skeptical that the single district judges have the power to freeze executive actions across the country.
But they also seemed to be disturbed by legality – and the consequences – of the executive decree underlying the case: an order issued by President Trump the first day in power ending the citizenship of the right of birthday, or the granting of automatic citizenship to all babies born in the United States.
Three lower federal judges said that Mr. Trump’s order had violated the 14th amendment to the Constitution as well as long -standing previous ones and blocked policy across the country. In an unusual decision, the judges had agreed to hear an oral argument on the question of whether the judges should not have limited their decisions only to the states, to the defense groups and to the individuals who had pursued the order.
The Trump administration had asked judges to consider the legality of these injunctions, which were a major obstacle to Mr. Trump’s agenda.
But the judges seemed to fight with the way they could quickly weigh on the legality of the order, which the administration had not asked them to review.
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