The Supreme Court on Friday in a 6-3 ruling along ideological lines allowed President Trump’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship to go into effect in some areas of the country, for now, by curtailing judges’ ability to block the president’s policies nationwide.

Ruling that three federal district judges went too far in issuing nationwide injunctions against Trump’s order, the high court’s decision claws back a key tool that plaintiffs have used to hamper the president’s agenda in dozens of lawsuits.

But it does not yet definitively resolve whether Trump’s restrictions on birthright citizenship are constitutional, a hefty legal question that could ultimately return to the justices.

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    3 days ago

    For now, the justices narrowed the lower court rulings to only block Trump’s order as applied to the 22 Democratic-led states, expectant mothers and immigration organizations that are suing

    What in the “patchwork of enforcement” is this bullshit? I remember taking a con issues class like 15 years ago when the first patchwork issue was weed legalization, and how much time we spent going over the fact that having the law apply massively differently across state lines is one of the main reasons we have a supreme court in the first place; to prevent that stupidity.

    Now that stupidity is the name of the game. Its the defining characteristic of our modern legal system. Weed, abortion, even citizenship… god help us all