"When we talk about #farm #loan application records, there is no more #PersonalInformation anywhere than in that database," Scott Marlow, a fmr snr ofcl in the US Dept of #Agriculture, told NPR. "The #farmer's entire #financial life & the life of their kids & their #family, every time they've missed a payment, every time they've had a hard time, every time they've gotten in financial trouble…it's there."

#ACLU, #DemocracyDefendersAction, #NAACP, #LDF, #LULAC et al have also now filed a #ClassAction to hold #Trump's #BirthrightCitizenship order #unconstitutional nationwide.

https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2025/06/Barbara-complaint.pdf

Once again, the #SCOTUS conservative super-majority abandoned its constitutionally assigned role & dangerously empowered the President. As Justice Sonia #Sotomayor put it in her dissent, “its decision is nothing less than an open invitation for the Government to bypass the Constitution.”

The case, #Trump v. Casa, involved one of the most blatantly #unconstitutional of Trump’s orders: his bid to revoke, by executive fiat, the constitutional guarantee of #BirthrightCitizenship. But the implications of the ruling extend far beyond that single issue. Friday’s decision means that #courts are now hobbled from stopping any of the Admin’s actions, no matter how unconstitutional they may be, nor how much damage they will inflict.

The #courts cannot protect us from #Trump’s #unconstitutional overreach. That is the terrifying lesson of Friday’s 6–3 #SCOTUS ruling limiting the power of federal #judges to issue broad orders blocking Trump’s policies from taking effect while the lawsuits challenging them make their way through the courts.

CASA (plaintiff in Maryland #BirthrightCitizenship case) has now filed an amended complaint seeking class certification for similarly situated individuals impacted by #Trump’s #ExecutiveOrder.

…and so it begins. The thousands of #ClassAction certification requests.

Have fun #FederalCourts!

https://www.law.georgetown.edu/icap/wp-content/uploads/sites/32/2025/06/CASA-v-Trump-Amended-Complaint.pdf

— $2 billion in congressionally appropriated #ForeignAid flowing through the #State Dept & #USAID frozen by #Trump

— >25k children face deportation without lawyers because the admin cut off a contract that pays for their legal representation

And that’s just a few of the cases with #NationwideInjunctions.

Still, #SCOTUS’ ruling doesn’t mean they will instantly evaporate. Experts say the next step is for individual courts to apply the new precedent in their own cases. In some instances, the #DOJ will likely challenge existing #NationwideInjunctions to see if they need to be pared back under the Supreme Court’s new precedent.

District-court judges have repeatedly used #NationwideInjunctions to block #Trump admin policies, including to halt the #MassFirings of civil servants, the defunding of #ForeignAid & the relocation of #transgender women in #FederalPrisons to men’s housing. Some of those injunctions have been lifted by higher courts; many, including those detailed below, remain in place, …for now.

Friday’s ruling will lead to a drastic reduction in the #FederalCourts’ ability to check the White House, according to Judith Resnik, a professor at Yale Law School. #NationwideInjunctions give #courts “the capacity to tell the key nationwide actor, the #ExecutiveBranch, to behave lawfully,” she said.

Friday’s opinion could affect any case, on any issue, where a federal judge makes a ruling that extends beyond the party or parties that actually brought the lawsuit. It left open the possibility that #judges could still block government actions nationwide, but only in situations where there was no narrower approach available that would protect the actual plaintiffs whom the #court is seeking to benefit.

#SCOTUS’ opinion setting new limits on the #power of district-court #judges to use one of their most potent tools— #NationwideInjunctions —marks the beginning of a profound shift in the way the #FederalCourts operate.

Before, >1k judges had the power to issue nationwide orders that could stop the #FederalGovernment in its tracks.

Now, those judges’ rulings can only apply to the actual plaintiffs in the case.

#FuckSCOTUS #law #Constitution #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/us/politics/trump-birthright-citizenship-scotus.html?smid=url-share

Well, this is all very upsetting.

Apparently #Nixon was right.

If the president does it, then it isn’t illegal.

At least according to this #SCOTUS.

Pretty much the final nail in the coffin of #democracy in the #UnitedStates.

“With its ruling today, the majority largely grants the Government's wish. But, in my view, if this country is going to persist as a Nation of laws & not men, the Judiciary has no choice but to deny it.” - #Jackson