This has been a matter of debate since the first Trump administration. Then as now, Democrats and other left-wing groups would file complaints in reliably left-leaning courts and some federal judge would issue a “nationwide injunction” to stop whatever the left wanted stopped. Attorney General Bill Barr was arguing this was a problem back in 2019, noting how relatively rare nationwide injunctions were in previous decades and how much power they grant a single judge.
Since President Trump took office, federal district courts have issued 37 nationwide injunctions against the Executive Branch. That’s more than one a month. By comparison, during President Obama’s first two years, district courts issued two nationwide injunctions against the Executive Branch, both of which were vacated by the Ninth Circuit. And according to the Department’s best…
