Sen. John Kennedy: SCOTUS Should Seize Chance to Eliminate Universal Injunctions

Senator John Kennedy R-LA says the U.S. Supreme Court should “jump at the chance” to end the practice of district court judges unilaterally preventing the federal government from enforcing laws or policies nationwide.

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In an opinion piece for Fox News, Kennedy carefully lays out the history of how, initially, when a district court sided with a plaintiff’s challenge to a federal policy, that court’s injunction would only apply to the plaintiff in the case.

However, as Kennedy observes, in the 1960s, judges began to block the government from enforcing the policy against anyone, anywhere.

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