The Supreme Court's recent ruling in Trump v. CASA, delivered by Justice Barrett, addresses the scope of district court authority related to Trump's executive order banning birthright citizenship. The 6-3 decision underscores that lower courts can only issue orders pertaining to specific cases, thus limiting their ability to enact broader changes in established constitutional rights. Dissenting opinions from Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson emphasize concerns over undermining protections for citizenship enshrined in the Fourteenth Amendment since 1868.
Justice Barrett's majority opinion underlines that district courts cannot issue orders that broadly affect existing constitutional rights, framing their power between individual cases.
In dissent, Justice Sotomayor argues that the Supreme Court's decision undermines long-standing protections established under the Fourteenth Amendment concerning citizenship rights.
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