Supreme Court

Nationwide Injunctions, a Crucial Check on Presidential Power, Are Not Dead Yet

Both Donald Trump and Joe Biden asked the Supreme Court to abolish nationwide injunctions, which allow federal judges to stop a federal policy from going into effect.

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Donald Trump and the Supreme Court building | Illustration: Aaron Schwartz - Pool via CNP / MEGA / Newscom/RSSIL/Newscom/Gary Blakeley/Dreamstime
(Illustration: Aaron Schwartz - Pool via CNP / MEGA / Newscom/RSSIL/Newscom/Gary Blakeley/Dreamstime)

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Damon Root is a senior editor at Reason and the author of A Glorious Liberty: Frederick Douglass and the Fight for an Antislavery Constitution (Potomac Books). His next book, Emancipation War: The Fall of Slavery and the Coming of the Thirteenth Amendment (Potomac Books), will be published in June 2026.