"Two weeks into the new term, a Seattle courtroom offered the year's defining image of presidential power meeting its limits: a Ninth Circuit panel upheld a nationwide block on the administration's attempt to curtail birthright citizenship, acknowledging that the judges' interpretation of the Constitution-not a presidential pen stroke-sets the terms of American membership. Weeks earlier, in Baltimore, a federal judge had temporarily enjoined key parts of two DEI-related executive orders as both vague and speech-burdening-an"
"More than half of the administration's major orders this year hit a judicial roadblock, often within weeks. And the action has hardly been confined to the usual venues: the administration even took the extraordinary step of suing all 15 federal judges in Maryland over a deportation-related order-only to see the case tossed. The result is a litigation map that runs through Washington, D.C., Seattle, and Baltimore as reliably as it does through Texas,"
A Ninth Circuit panel upheld a nationwide block on an effort to curtail birthright citizenship, emphasizing judicial interpretation of the Constitution over unilateral executive action. A federal judge in Baltimore temporarily enjoined key DEI-related executive order provisions as vague and speech-burdening, though an appellate court later stayed that injunction. More than half of major executive orders faced judicial obstacles this year, often within weeks. The administration sued all 15 federal judges in Maryland over a deportation order but lost. The Supreme Court is poised to test the outer limits of executive power. In an era of congressional gridlock, courts are driving major policy outcomes.
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