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MayReasonRule

(4,011 posts)
Fri Mar 21, 2025, 01:56 PM Mar 2025

Trump asks Supreme Court to curb judges' power to block policies nationwide



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In addition to taking aim at nationwide injunctions, the Trump administration’s appeal to the Supreme Court seeks to weaken the ability of states to file lawsuits against federal policies.

States with Democratic attorneys general have brought a flurry of such lawsuits in the past two months, challenging Trump actions on issues ranging from transgender rights to safeguards on sensitive federal government data to reimbursement rates for federal grants. One of the injunctions blocking the birthright citizenship order came in a case brought by 18 blue states.

Trump’s Supreme Court filing argues that states don’t have the right to bring suits on behalf of their residents.



The more things change, truly the more they stay the same.
Weaponized hypocrisy is a long-standing tradition for "conservatives" a.k.a. fascists.

It goes back to at least 1850:
States MAY allow slavery.

States MAY NOT choose NOT TO ALLOW slavery and the federal government can force them to returned escaped slaves.
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Trump asks Supreme Court to curb judges' power to block policies nationwide (Original Post) MayReasonRule Mar 2025 OP
Only allowed if you're a republican state when Biden was in office newdeal2 Mar 2025 #1
It's all just nonsense piled on top of nonsense EarlG Mar 2025 #2
If Roberts does not do this, then what will trump do? LetMyPeopleVote Mar 2025 #3

EarlG

(23,346 posts)
2. It's all just nonsense piled on top of nonsense
Fri Mar 21, 2025, 02:12 PM
Mar 2025

Their argument for shutting down all these federal agencies is "we want to return all the power to the states" while at the same time they're in court seeking to "weaken the ability of states to file lawsuits against federal policies."

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