WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump’s administration asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to stop judges across the country from governing the “whole nation from their courtrooms,” court filings show.
Acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris submitted an application to the Supreme Court on Thursday for a partial stay of an injunction issued by a Maryland court — simultaneously filing similar injunctions for cases in Washington State and Massachusetts. These cases all involve challenges to Trump’s January Executive Order on birthright citizenship.
“This is hardly the first time that individual district judges have entered injunctions to ‘govern the whole Nation from their courtrooms,’” the filing states. “Such universal injunctions, though ‘a relatively new phenomenon,’ have become ubiquitous, posing ‘a question of great significance that has been in need of the…
