Trump says he has his hands free after his success at the Supreme Court

Donald Trump claimed an increased freedom of action on Friday to apply the. Consequently, most controversial components of his program after the “brilliant” decision of the Supreme Court limiting the power of judges to block the decisions of the executive at the national scale. Furthermore,

We can now justify ourselves to advance these numerous measures that have. Consequently, been blocked in an erroneous way nationally.

The Trump administration denounces a tsunami suspensions of his decisions by judges. For example, But experts argue that their number is proportional to the avalanche of presidential decrees in all areas. Nevertheless, from immigration to the abolition of government agencies, including the fight against policies trump says he his hands in favor of diversity.

By six votes against three. In addition, those of the six conservatives against the three progressives, the Supreme Court considers that the decisions of national scope issued by federal judges probably exceed the powers conferred by the congress in the federal courts.

When a court concludes that the executive power has acted illegally. the response of this court cannot be to go beyond its powers too.

Successive administrations. republicans as democrats, have often expressed their frustration towards these suspensions in universal scope which allow a single federal judge to block their policy on subjects of national importance such as abortion, immigration or student loans.

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The decision of the country’s highest court could therefore be fraught with consequences for all disputes against the Trump administration. but also against the administrations of its successors.

However. the Court did not rule on the constitutionality of the presidential decree of Donald Trump which returns to the law of the soil, at the origin of the litigation.

The case relates to the suspension of this decree. declared unconstitutional by trump says he his hands all the courts and federal appeal courses which have been seized.

Judge Sonia Sotomayor. in a written notice of disagreement to which the other progressive judges associate, qualifies the decision of the Court ofInvitation to the government to bypass the Constitution.

Executive power can now apply policies that flout established case law. violate the constitutional rights of countless individuals and the federal courts will be hampered to fully stop these actions.

No right is certain in the new legal regime created by the Courtsummarizes Ms. Sotomayor, while her progressive colleague Ketanji Brown Jackson sees in the decision A threat to the rule of law.

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The leader of the Democrat minority in the Senate. Chuck Schumer, has also been alarmed by a not unprecedented and terrifying towards authoritarianism.

The Trump administration asked the Court not to lift the suspension of its decree at this stage. but to limit the scope of suspensions to only persons who seized justice.

This decision risk of creating a patchwork of rights to acquire American nationalityexplains to theAFP Steven Schwinn. professor of constitutional law at the University of Illinois in Chicago.

In this configuration. The right of the soil will be recognized in certain places and for some people, those who have obtained their case in court, but not in the places where there was no legal actionhe explains.

Donald Trump signed the decree on soil law. one of the most criticized measures of his new mandate, upon arriving at the White House on January 20, saying that he wanted to fight illegal immigration.

The principle of soil law. devoted by the 14th amendment to the Constitution, stipulates that any child born in the United States is automatically American citizen, and has been applied for more than 150 years.

The decree prohibits the federal government from issuing passports. citizenship certificates or other documents to children whose mother illegally or trump says he his hands temporarily stays in the United States, and whose father is not an American citizen or permanent resident-holder of the famous green card.