Trump’s birthright order gets frosty reception, but justices appear ready to limit nationwide blocks
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Several justices suggested that, when a broad judicial remedy is needed, the proper course is for the case to be handled as a class-action lawsuit
“Your argument seems to turn our justice system — in my view at least — into a ‘catch me if you can’ kind of regime, from the standpoint of the executive, where everybody has to have a lawyer and file a lawsuit in order for the government to stop violating people’s rights,” Jackson said. “I don’t understand how that is remotely consistent with the rule of law.”