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US Supreme Court Curtails Power Of Individual Judges To Block Trump

The US Supreme Court curbed the power of a single federal judge to block a president's policies with an injunction that applies nationwide (Credit: AFP)

A divided US Supreme Court handed President Donald Trump a major victory on Friday by curbing the power of lone federal judges to block executive actions.

In a 6-3 ruling stemming from Trump's bid to end birthright citizenship, the court said nationwide injunctions issued by district court judges "likely exceed the equitable authority that Congress has granted to federal courts."

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