CNN’s Elie Honig Says the ‘Presidency Is Far More Powerful’ Thanks to Supreme Court Ruling on Trump Executive Order
CNN senior legal analyst Elie Honig declared that the Supreme Court made the presidency “far more powerful” with a 6-3 ruling inveighing against nationwide injunctions on Friday.
Honig joined a panel on Inside Politics following a White House press conference during whihc Trump celebrated the Supreme Court’s ruling as a major victory.
“This morning the Supreme Court has delivered a monumental victory for the Constitution, the separation of powers, and the rule of law,” the president said, arguing birthright citizenship has been used to “scam the system.”
The options for opposing Trump’s executive order, Honig argued, now boils down to lawsuits.
“They can no longer rely on, well, one district judge in some other district, block this nationwide. If someone wants to challenge us now, they have either sue on their own or become part of what we call a class action, a large group of people going in and suing at once. It’s way more burdensome than it was a few hours ago,” Honig said.
The legal analyst agreed with the president that he was handed a major win.
“The bottom line takeaway from today is right now the presidency, forget about Donald Trump, the presidency is far more powerful than it was at 9.55 a.m. this morning. What this says is that district court judges, by and large, cannot individually block a president’s orders across the country,” Honig said, adding that injunctions from district judges have been a “problem” for past presidents, Republican and Democrat, too.
Honig explained that while Trump received a major win, he and Attorney General Pam Bondi may be overstating how big of a win it actually is.
“This has now fundamentally shifted the balance of powers away from the courts to the president. And I should say, with the press conference that just adjourned, the president is correct that he got a big win today,” he said. “But there was some overstatement in there, too. At one point, I think the attorney general said, ‘now district court judges can’t stop us from doing anything.’ Yes, they can. And they can on a case by case. Party by party basis, but their power to do that’s much reduced.”
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