On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case of Trump v. CASA, Inc. Though the case arises out of President Donald Trump’s January executive order on birthright citizenship and the 14th Amendment, Thursday’s oral argument had very little to do with the hotly contested substantive issue of whether the children of illegal aliens born on U.S. soil must automatically be conferred American citizenship.
Instead, the argument mostly focused on a procedural legal issue that is just as important as the underlying substantive issue itself: whether lower-court federal judges possess the legitimate power to issue “nationwide” injunctions to bring laws or executive orders to a halt throughout the entire republic.
There is a very straightforward answer to this question: No, they don’t. And it is imperative for American constitutionalism and republican…
