Daily Caller by Kevin Daley 1/28/2020
• Justice Neil Gorsuch invoked the infamous One Ring of the dark lord Sauron in a short opinion urging the high court to consider curtailing nationwide injunctions.
• A nationwide injunction is a judicial order that bars enforcement of a particular policy across the country. Such orders have repeatedly stalled Trump administration priorities.
• Gorsuch said such injunctions may exceed the power the Constitution grants to federal courts.
Justice Neil Gorsuch invoked J.R.R. Tolkien’s tri-part epic “The Lord of the Rings†in a Monday concurrence that suggested the Supreme Court may need to curtail the use of nationwide injunctions.
Gorsuch likened nationwide injunctions to the One Ring, an artifact of malevolent power whose destruction is the driving action of Tolkien’s saga. The justice alluded to the ring as he reviewed the history of litigation regarding the Trump administration’s public charge rule, which will take effect after the high court lifted two injunctions entered against it Monday afternoon.
A lengthy inscription on the band proclaims that the One Ring shall “rule them all.†Gorsuch found that domineering promise an apt descriptor for nationwide injunctions, which remain in force regardless of the outcome of other lawsuits on a given subject.
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