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US Supreme Court limits federal judges' power to block Trump orders


Ruling to limit nationwide injunctions could see president’s order to ban birthright citizenship partially implemented

The decision on Friday morning, however, decided by six votes to three by the nine-member bench of the highest court in the land, sided with the Trump administration in a historic case that tested presidential power and judicial oversight. Democratic attorneys general who brought the original challenge said in a press conference that while the ruling had been disappointing, the silver lining was that the supreme court left open pathways for continued protection and that “birthright citizenship remains the law of the land”. “We fought a civil war to address whether babies born on United States soil are, in fact, citizens of this country,” New Jersey’s attorney general, Matthew Platkin, said, speaking alongside colleagues from Washington, California, Massachusetts and Connecticut.

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