Supremes give Trump border victory, spank lower courts for 'cosmic' injunctions
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday gave the Trump administration a temporary victory in its fight to control the nation's borders.
"The real problem here is the increasingly common practice of trial courts ordering relief that transcends the cases before them. Whether framed as injunctions of 'nationwide,' 'universal,' or 'cosmic' scope, these orders share the same basic flaw – they direct how the defendant must act toward persons who are not parties to the case."
The lower-court judges can order the government not to enforce a rule "against the plaintiffs in the case before it," but "when a court goes further than that, ordering the government to take (or not take) some action with respect to those who are strangers to the suit, it is hard to see how the court could still be acting in the judicial role of resolving cases and controversies."...