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Injunction Junction

JL;DR SUMMARY Michael Lind's article explores the increasingly common use of nationwide injunctions by partisan federal judges, particularly to thwart presidential initiatives they oppose. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Biden AdministrationTrump AdministrationLawfareConstitutional AuthorityPartisan PoliticsExecutive OrdersJudicial PowerFederal JudgesNationwide InjunctionsForum Shopping

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California, United States
"Abusing their power, many low-level federal judges today act as one-person Supreme Courts, deciding constitutional issues for the whole country from their courthouses in California or Texas or Hawaii."
Massachusetts, United States
"as did Judge William Young, a U.S. District Judge in far-left Massachusetts."
San Francisco, California, United States
"Judge Breyers temporary restraining order against the Trump administration was unanimously overturned by a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, based in San Francisco."
Washington DC, United States
"6 out of 10 anti-Trump cases have been brought by plaintiffs to only three district courts with mostly Democratic judges—the district courts in D.C., Massachusetts, and Maryland"
Maryland, United States
"6 out of 10 anti-Trump cases have been brought by plaintiffs to only three district courts with mostly Democratic judges—the district courts in D.C., Massachusetts, and Maryland"
Hawaii, United States
"In 2017, after U.S. District Court Judge Derrick Watson in Hawaii blocked a revised executive order that banned travelers from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen from entering the United States"
Texas, United States
"Four of the six injunctions issued against the administration of George W. Bush were issued by federal judges in California."
Amarillo, Texas, United States
"In 2022, after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, a single judge in Amarillo, Texas, Matthew Joseph Kacsmaryk, on the basis of a dubious interpretation of the Administrative Procedure Act"
Washington, United States
"Thomas O. Rice, an Obama appointee, of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington, a progressive state,"
Oregon, United States
"Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Rep. Deborah Ross (D-NC), in response to Judge Kacsmaryks ultimately overruled mifepristone injunction,"
North Carolina, United States
"Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Rep. Deborah Ross (D-NC), in response to Judge Kacsmaryks ultimately overruled mifepristone injunction,"

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