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Practically all of the common injunctions blocking President Donald Trump’s agenda had been issued by simply 5 of the nation’s 94 federal district courts, a statistic that the administration mentioned lays naked the Left’s technique of lawfare.
Trump and Legal professional Basic Pam Bondi spoke at a information convention Friday simply after the U.S. Supreme Court docket dominated in a 6-3 choice that district judges, the lowest-level jurists within the federal system, can’t impose nationwide injunctions. Bondi famous that out of 40 nationwide injunctions issued since Trump retook the White Home, 35 got here out of 5 districts perceived as liberal.
“Lively liberal… judges have used these injunctions to dam just about all of President Trump’s insurance policies,” Bondi mentioned. “Not. Not.”
Nationwide injunctions are courtroom orders that forestall the federal authorities from implementing a coverage or legislation. They’ve a cascading impact impacting the whole nation, not simply the events concerned within the courtroom case, and have been used towards the Trump administration at a vastly greater price than earlier administrations.
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Legal professional Basic Pam Bondi speaks alongside President Donald Trump on latest Supreme Court docket rulings within the briefing room on the White Home on June 27, 2025. (Joe Raedle/Getty Pictures)
Trump’s first administration confronted 64 injunctions out of the full 127 nationwide injunctions issued since 1963, Fox Information Digital beforehand reported. There have been 32 injunctions issued towards the Bush, Obama and Biden administrations collectively since 2001, which means the primary Trump administration was on the receiving finish of double the quantity of nationwide injunctions than his two predecessors and successor mixed, in response to an April 2024 version of the Harvard Legislation Assessment.
Bondi pointed to the 5 district courts – Maryland, Washington, D.C., Massachusetts, California and Washington state – calling it “loopy” that such an awesome variety of nationwide injunctions originated in these jurisdictions. Conservatives have accused the Left of bringing their circumstances in liberal judicial districts stocked with Democratic-appointed judges.
Fox Information Digital regarded on the 5 district courts and the way judges in them have issued sweeping injunctions which have hampered Trump’s federal insurance policies.
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President Donald Trump speaks throughout a media convention on the finish of the NATO summit in The Hague, Netherlands, June 25, 2025. (AP Photograph/Alex Brandon)
U.S. District Court docket for the District of Maryland
The Supreme Court docket agreed this yr to take up three consolidated circumstances involving nationwide injunctions handed down by federal district judges in Maryland, Massachusetts and Washington state associated to Trump’s birthright citizenship government order.
The U.S. District Court docket for Maryland was one of many courts nationwide that issued an injunction towards Trump’s January government order to finish the follow of granting birthright citizenship to the youngsters of unlawful immigrants. Maryland U.S. District Decide Deborah Boardman issued the injunction in February following a lawsuit introduced by 5 pregnant unlawful immigrant ladies within the state, which was adopted by different district judges in Washington state and Massachusetts ordering injunctions of their very own.
The Maryland district courtroom additionally issued a separate preliminary injunction towards the Trump administration’s government orders ending federal help for range, fairness and inclusion (DEI) applications in February.
The courtroom just lately got here beneath fireplace from the Trump administration when the Division of Justice filed lawsuits towards every of the 15 federal judges on the Maryland federal bench earlier this month for robotically issuing injunctions for sure immigration circumstances. The injunctions have prevented the Division of Homeland Safety from deporting or altering the authorized standing of the immigrant in query for 2 enterprise days.
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“President Trump’s government authority has been undermined because the first hours of his presidency by an countless barrage of injunctions designed to halt his agenda,” Bondi mentioned in a press launch of the state’s automated injunction practices. “The American folks elected President Trump to hold out his coverage agenda: this sample of judicial overreach undermines the democratic course of and can’t be allowed to face.”
U.S. District Court docket for the Northern District of California
Judges on the bench for the Northern District of California have issued not less than six important injunctions hampering insurance policies put forth by the Trump administration this yr. The Northern California district courtroom contains counties comparable to San Francisco, Sonoma and Santa Clara.
Again in March, Decide William Alsup, for instance, granted a preliminary injunction ordering federal businesses to reinstate probationary staff fired beneath the Trump administration’s efforts to slim down the scale of the federal authorities. Decide Susan Illston granted a short lived pause in Might to the Trump administration’s federal reductions in drive initiatives, and Decide William Orrick granted a separate injunction in April that prevented the Trump administration from withholding federal funds from areas deemed sanctuaries for unlawful immigrants.
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Federal judges on the Northern California bench additionally issued injunctions to dam the enforcement of Trump administration polices associated to organizations that promote DEI and LGBTQ applications and to stop the administration from terminating the authorized visa standing of worldwide college students.
Helicopter shot of the U.S. Capitol and Supreme Court docket Constructing in Washington, D.C., at sundown, with the Nationwide Mall within the background.
U.S. District Court docket for the District of Columbia
The U.S. District Court docket for the District of Columbia has issued not less than six signigicant injunctions towards the Trump administration this yr, together with Decide James Boasberg’s March injunction stopping the Trump administration from deporting violent unlawful immigrant gang members beneath the Alien Enemies Act – which obtained widespread backlash amongst conservatives.
“Individuals are shocked by what’s going on with the Court docket System. I used to be elected for a lot of causes, however a principal one was LAW AND ORDER, an enormous a part of which is QUICKLY eradicating an enormous Legal Community of people, who got here into our Nation via the Crooked Joe Biden Open Borders Coverage! These are harmful and violent folks, who kill, maim and, in lots of different methods, hurt the folks of our Nation,” Trump posted to Reality Social in March following Boasberg extending his restraining order towards using the Alien Enemies Act to deport unlawful immigrants with alleged ties to gangs, comparable to Venezuelan felony group Tren de Aragua (TdA).
Federal Decide James Boasberg and President Donald Trump (Getty Pictures)
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Federal Decide Loren AliKhan issued a preliminary injunction in January barring the Trump administration’s freeze on federal grant disbursements via numerous federal businesses; Decide Paul Friedman blocked the Trump administration from focusing on international service staff’ collective bargaining rights in Might; and Decide Ana Reyes granted a nationwide injunction in March barring the Pentagon from imposing Trump’s government order banning transgender people from serving within the U.S. navy.
Judges on the courtroom have additionally issued injunctions focusing on the Trump administration’s plans to dismantle the federally-funded state media community Voice of America, and one other that blocked the Bureau of Prisons from implementing a Trump government order proscribing transgender healthcare and lodging for federal inmates.
Boston, Massachusetts, skyline (Getty Pictures)
U.S. District Court docket for the District of Massachusetts
The U.S. District Court docket for the District of Massachusetts has issued not less than 4 important injunctions towards the Trump administration this yr, together with the nationwide preliminary injunction barring Trump’s government order ending the follow of granting birthright citizenship to the youngsters of unlawful immigrants.
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Different injunctions issued this yr embody Decide Julia Kobick this month blocked Trump’s presidential motion requiring passports to replicate an individual’s organic intercourse and never their gender id, and one other that concerned the Trump administration’s efforts to finish a Biden-era parole program for tons of of hundreds of migrants from Afghanistan, Latin America and Ukraine.
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U.S. District Court docket for the Western District of Washington
Forward of the Supreme Court docket’s ruling limiting the scope of nationwide injunctions, judges on the District Court docket for the Western District of Washington issued a handful of injunctions focusing on Trump insurance policies, together with becoming a member of courts in Maryland and Massachusetts earlier this yr blocking Trump’s government order ending birthright citizenship for youngsters of unlawful immigrants.
Decide Jamal Whitehead issued a preliminary injunction in February halting Trump’s January government order suspending the U.S. Refugee Help Program. Whereas one other federal decide on the bench in March granted a nationwide preliminary injunction blocking Trump’s government order barring transgender people from serving within the navy.
The U.S. District Court docket for the Western District of Washington contains counties comparable to King – house to Seattle – Snohomish and Clark. The 2 courts for the Western District of Washington and the Northern District of California are each within the ninth Circuit.
President Donald Trump, joined by Legal professional Basic Pam Bondi and Deputy Legal professional Basic Todd Blanche, speaks on latest Supreme Court docket rulings on the White Home on June 27, 2025. (Joe Raedle/Getty Pictures)
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Trump celebrated the Supreme Court docket’s ruling proscribing the scope of federal judges’ powers to grant nationwide injunctions as “a monumental victory for the Structure.”
“The Supreme Court docket has delivered a monumental victory for the Structure, the separation of powers, and the rule of legislation in putting down the extreme use of nationwide injunctions… I used to be elected on a historic mandate, however in latest months, we’ve seen a handful of radical left judges successfully attempt to overrule the rightful powers of the president to cease the American folks from getting the insurance policies that they voted for in report numbers. It was a grave risk to democracy,” Trump mentioned on Friday.
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SCOTUS’ ruling adopted the Trump administration submitting an emergency attraction with the very best courtroom in March, when the then-acting solicitor basic, Sarah Harris, sounded the alarm that nationwide injunctions had hit “epidemic proportions” beneath the second Trump administration. She famous that the federal authorities confronted 14 common injunctions within the first three years of the Biden administration, in comparison with 15 leveled towards the Trump admin in a single month alone.
Common injunctions had been additionally a sticking level for officers within the first Trump administration, who railed towards the circulate of injunctions ordered towards the forty fifth president’s insurance policies and legal guidelines, together with the previous chiefs of the Division of Justice.
“Courts issued a mean of just one.5 nationwide injunctions per yr towards the Reagan, Clinton and George W. Bush administrations, and a pair of.5 per yr towards the Obama administration,” former Assistant Legal professional Basic Beth Williams mentioned in February 2019.
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“In President Trump’s first yr in workplace, nevertheless, judges issued a whopping 20 nationwide injunctions – an eight-fold improve. This matches the whole eight-year whole of such injunctions issued towards President Obama throughout his two phrases. We are actually at 30, matching the full variety of injunctions issued towards the primary 42 presidents mixed.”
Fox Information Digital’s Andrew Mark Miller, Breanne Deppisch and Ashley Oliver contributed to this report.