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Justice Samuel Alito Asks Trump’s Lawyer: 'What Is The Point Of This Argument About Universal Injunctions?'
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5/15/2025
During Thursday's Supreme Court oral arguments, Justice Samuel Alito pressed Solicitor General John Sauer about universal injunctions.
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You began by outlining what you see as the practical problems that have been created
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by universal injunctions.
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If we were to hold that the states have standing, and if it is possible for a plaintiff to get
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emergency certification of a class, would we, suppose we agreed with you on universal
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injunctions but allow those other two avenues?
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Would the practical problem be rectified to any substantial degree?
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Certainly, if there were an injunction that extended to all of the litigating states,
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that would cover a very substantial portion of the country, and also an emergency sort
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of class certification decision might also grant very broad relief.
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So the answer is that the practical problem would not be solved.
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And if that's the case, what is the point of this argument about universal injunctions?
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I think the point is that universal injunctions exceed traditional principles of Article 3,
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and they exceed the traditional equitable authority.
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And that's what yields all these sort of pathologies, so to speak, of the current practice of issuing
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them very, very easily.
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