Federal judges across the country, selected deliberatively by activist organizations, have issued more than 25 universal injunctions halting enforcement of President Donald Trump‘s executive actions since January on issues ranging from immigration to higher education to national security. These injunctions have significantly hampered Trump’s ability to govern the nation as he promised he would during the 2024 election. The Supreme Court put an end to the practice Friday, vacating a lower court’s order that halted implementation of Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s decision makes it explicitly clear that the majority’s holding has nothing to do with the underlying legality of Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order, a policy that attempts to deny citizenship to children born by certain classes of aliens who give birth in the United States. The primary dissent, written by Justice Sonia Sotomayor and joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson, focuses almost exclusively on the legal merits of Trump’s order which it describes as “patently unconstitutional” and completely contrary to “the Constitution’s text, history, this Court’s precedents, federal law, and Executive Branch practice.”