Supremes suppress power of federal courts

 Washington Post -  The Supreme Court on Friday backed President Donald Trump’s request to scale back nationwide orders that have for months blocked the administration’s ban on automatic citizenship for the U.S.-born babies of undocumented immigrants and foreign visitors, a signature piece of Trump’s efforts to restrict immigration.

The 6-3 decision, with the liberal justices dissenting, sends the cases back to the lower courts to determine the practical implications of the ruling and leaves open a path for challengers to try to continue to block the president’s policy. (Read the ruling and dissents here.)

The justices were not directly addressing the constitutionality of the president’s birthright citizenship order, which opponents say conflicts with the 14th Amendment, past court rulings and the nation’s history.

Instead, the Trump administration had asked the justices to limit the scope of orders imposed by three lower-court judges that blocked his policy from taking effect nationwide while its legality is tested in court....

Justice Sonia Sotomayor read a lengthy summary of her dissent from the bench to emphasize her strong disagreement with the opinion, which she called a “travesty” and warned would “cause chaos for the families of all affected children.”

Just wondering....

Sam Smith -   How would this ruling have affected slavery back in the time when southern courts considered it legal?