People are certain,y welcome to their day in court, but one thing in particular irritates me. How in the world do these judges have a right to tie up the country’s chief executive with nationwide injunctions? I’m not talking about the Supreme Court. I’m talking about the district judges. How do they have authority to impede national policy?
Agreed, district judges don’t have that right in my view, their rulings should only apply to their circuits.
“... one thing in particular irritates me. How in the world do these judges have a right to tie up the country’s chief executive with nationwide injunctions?”
It is a puzzler, because if the Supreme Court decides something, its one thing in our checks and balances scheme. But if dozens if not hundreds of judges around the country can over-rule the President until the case can reach the Supreme Court (who has limited bandwidth to handle them), we have a judicial dictatorship, or at the very least, judicially imposed anarchy. The laws are whatever a judge says they are. And, don’t tell me there is no forum shopping!