President Donald J. Trump scored a crucial legal and constitutional victory Friday as the U.S. Supreme Court ruled to sharply curtail the authority of federal district judges to issue sweeping nationwide injunctions — a tactic long used by the Left to obstruct his America First agenda.

Following the 6-3 decision, the White House made clear that the Trump administration now plans to move quickly to dismantle unconstitutional roadblocks put in place by activist judges under the guise of “nationwide” legal authority.

A senior White House official, speaking to the Washington Post on condition of anonymity, said the administration would vigorously contest dozens of judicial rulings that have blocked key policy initiatives — from Education Department reforms and government efficiency efforts to the long-overdue dismantling of the bloated U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

“Thanks to this decision, we can now promptly file to proceed with numerous policies that have been wrongly enjoined on a nationwide basis,” President Trump said in a statement celebrating the ruling.

The president called the court’s decision a “necessary correction” to the imbalance that has plagued the separation of powers, especially under liberal courts that have routinely blocked duly issued executive orders from taking effect nationwide.

“The Supreme Court has fundamentally reset the relationship between the federal courts and the executive branch,” said Notre Dame Law School Professor Samuel Bray, one of the nation’s top legal scholars on the subject.

Indeed, since the Obama years, unelected federal judges have used these “universal injunctions” to freeze conservative executive actions, often for years, even when the president’s policy is later upheld in higher courts. Liberals have wielded the tactic as a de facto veto power, bypassing Congress and nullifying the will of the American people.

Friday’s ruling delivers a decisive blow to that abuse of power, affirming that judges must restrict rulings to the parties before them, rather than imposing sweeping orders that impact Americans who are not part of the legal action.

The decision stems from the ongoing legal fight over Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship for the children of illegal immigrants — a bold move rooted in a proper interpretation of the 14th Amendment. While the court did not weigh in on the order’s constitutionality, it took direct aim at the legal mechanism used to stall it.

This is a major win not just for President Trump, but for the constitutional principle that presidents, elected by the people, must not be handcuffed by judicial overreach.

More than 300 lawsuits have been filed by left-wing groups since President Trump returned to office in 2025 — most seeking to block his reforms by way of nationwide injunctions. According to the Washington Post, roughly 50 of those cases have resulted in temporary orders halting policies like:

• The rollback of foreign aid
• The termination of automatic birthright citizenship
• The elimination of taxpayer-funded legal counsel for young migrants
• And the reform of government agencies through mass layoffs of underperforming staff

While some of these lower court decisions have already been stayed or overturned by appeals courts, Friday’s ruling will dramatically speed up the administration’s ability to implement its agenda.

Legal activists on the Left are fuming — especially those who used the courts to stall Trump’s America First vision during his first term. Smita Ghosh of the progressive Constitutional Accountability Center warned the decision will “make it more difficult and more time-consuming to challenge unconstitutional executive practices.”

Translation: liberals can no longer rely on rogue judges to block Trump before a policy ever gets off the ground.

The court did leave the door open to nationwide remedies through class-action lawsuits, but that will involve longer litigation — a major disincentive for leftist groups addicted to instant judicial vetoes.

In short, this decision marks a legal sea change, affirming that unelected district judges cannot govern the entire country from the bench. That power belongs where it always has — in the hands of the President and the people who elected him.