--- title: Trump and Bondi Celebrate Supreme Court Ruling, Predict It Will Unblock MAGA Agenda description: A Friday decision from the Supreme Court’s conservative majority curtailed lower courts’ power to block the President's policies nationwide. canonical: https://time.com/7298416/trump-bondi-supreme-court-birthright-citizenship/ author: Brian Bennett article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2025-06-27T19:28:35.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-19T08:08:18.699Z article:section: Politics og:title: Trump and Bondi Say Supreme Court Ruling Will Unblock Agenda og:description: The Supreme Court’s conservative majority curtailed lower courts’ power to block the President's policies nationwide. og:url: https://time.com/7298416/trump-bondi-supreme-court-birthright-citizenship/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt25e51ab6482af200/6998c7e366d4e31e3ecbc9dd/trump-bondi-supreme-court-birthright-citizenship.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1024 og:image:height: 576 og:image:alt: President Trump Speaks On Recent Supreme Court Rulings At The White House og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Trump and Bondi Say Supreme Court Ruling Will Unblock Agenda twitter:description: The Supreme Court’s conservative majority curtailed lower courts’ power to block the President's policies nationwide. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt25e51ab6482af200/6998c7e366d4e31e3ecbc9dd/trump-bondi-supreme-court-birthright-citizenship.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Trump and Bondi Predict Supreme Court Ruling Will Unblock MAGA Agenda > Sponsored content. 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U.S. President Donald Trump hails a "monumental victory" after Supreme Court curbs nationwide injunctions that have slowed his agenda._  by [Brian Bennett](https://time.com/author/brian-bennett/)  ## Brian Bennett Bennett is a former senior White House correspondent at TIME. Jun 27, 2025 7:28 PM UTC U.S. President Donald Trump hails a "monumental victory" after Supreme Court curbs nationwide injunctions that have slowed his agenda.  by [Brian Bennett](https://time.com/author/brian-bennett/)  ## Brian Bennett Bennett is a former senior White House correspondent at TIME. Jun 27, 2025 7:28 PM UTC President Donald Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi told reporters Friday that [the Supreme Court’s decision limiting nationwide court injunctions](https://time.com/7298296/supreme-court-birthright-citizenship-injunctions/)—which took the legs out of what has been one of the few checks on Trump’s executive authority—will enable the Trump Administration to enact its policies more quickly. The ruling from the high court’s conservative majority curtailed lower courts’ power to block Trump’s policies nationwide, largely wiping away a bulwark that has prevented some of the President’s most aggressive actions from going into effect. “Thanks to this decision we can now promptly file to proceed with numerous polices that have been wrongly enjoined on a nationwide basis,” Trump said during a press conference at the White House following the ruling. “These judges have attempted to dictate the law for the entire nation,” he added, calling the federal judges who have stood in his way “absolutely crazy, radical left judges.” For months, federal courts have slowed Trump’s efforts to expand the use of presidential authority in order to eliminate federal agencies, slash the federal workforce, speed up deportations, and redefine who gets American citizenship at birth. The judicial pushback has been a rare source of restraint on the President’s agenda from within the government, as Republicans in control of both the House and Senate have not defended Congressional authority over federal funding. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer [warned](https://x.com/SenSchumer/status/1938638234864517121) Friday that the Supreme Court decision is a “terrifying step toward authoritarianism” and “a grave danger to our democracy.” Among the initiatives Trump will try to push forward now that the obstacle of nationwide injunctions has been removed is his directive to deny citizenship to people born inside the U.S., he said. Trump issued an executive order on his first day in office attempting to redefine who should be recognized as a U.S. citizen at birth, challenging a precedent that has been settled law since 1898\. Trump’s order was blocked nationwide by district court rulings. But the Supreme Court ruled Friday that such court injunctions would only apply in the part of the country where they originated, which could lead to citizenship being granted differently depending where in the U.S. someone is born. **Read more:** [_What to Know About Trump’s Order on Birthright Citizenship and the Legal Battle Around It_](https://time.com/7208965/birthright-citizenship-trump-order/) The Supreme Court will consider in October the broader question of whether Trump has the authority to redefine the 127-year-old interpretation of citizenship established by the court itself. In 1898, the Supreme Court ruled that the 14th Amendment of the Constitution, which states that “all persons born or naturalized in the United States” are citizens of the country, guaranteed the citizenship of a Chinese-American cook named Wong Kim Ark. After a trip to China, immigration officials tried to deny Wong entry back into the U.S. under the Chinese Exclusion Act, which barred Chinese nationals from migrating to the U.S. at the time. But the court confirmed in a 6-to-2 decision that Wong was a citizen by birth, setting a precedent that birthright citizenship in the U.S. is universal. Trump wants to unwind that precedent. The 14th Amendment was ratified in the wake of the Civil War to clarify who had citizenship rights and equal protection under U.S. law. Trump said the constitutional amendment wasn’t designed to broadly define citizenship by birth and instead was “meant for the babies of slaves.” Birthright citizenship “wasn’t meant for people trying to scam the system and come into the country on a vacation,” Trump said at the White House on Friday. **Read more:** [_Inside Donald Trump’s Mass-Deportation Operation_](https://time.com/7291757/trump-deportation-ice-el-salvador/) Attorney General Pam Bondi said that the Supreme Court decision against nationwide injunctions will give federal authorities a freer hand to deport people suspected of being gang members. Courts have repeatedly ruled that the Trump Administration has overstepped its authority by deporting people without first presenting evidence to a court that they are public safety threats. "You should all feel safer now that President Trump can deport all of these gangs, and not one district court judge can think they're an emperor over this administration, his executive powers and why the people of the United States elected him,” Bondi said. In March, the Trump Administration deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador more than 230 Venezuelans from the U.S. that it said were members of a Venezuelan gang called Tren de Aragua. But the Administration has not shown evidence to a court or the public that all of those men were gang members or posed a threat to public safety that merits their being imprisoned in another country. On Friday, Bondi said similar arrests have been carried out much more broadly: The Trump Administration, she said, had arrested 2,711 people it says are Tren de Aragua gang members. The Supreme Court’s decision to hem in the lower courts may allow Trump to expand his immigration crackdown with even fewer checks on his power. ## Transcript [00:00] This morning, the Supreme Court has delivered a monumental victory for the Constitution, [00:05] the separation of powers and the rule of law in striking down [00:10] the excessive use of nationwide injunctions to [00:13] interfere with the normal functioning of the executive branch. [00:16] The Supreme Court has stopped the presidency itself. [00:20] That's what they've done. [00:21] And really, it's been it's been an amazing period of time this last hour. [00:29] There are people elated all over the country. [00:31] I've seen such, such happiness in spirit. [00:34] Sometimes you don't see that. [00:36] But this case is very important. [00:37] I was elected on a historic mandate, but in recent months, [00:41] we've seen a handful of [00:43] radical left judges effectively try to overrule the rightful powers of [00:47] the president to stop the American people from [00:50] getting the policies that they voted for in record numbers. [00:54] It was a grave threat to democracy, frankly. [00:57] And instead of merely ruling on the immediate cases before them, [01:01] These judges have attempted to dictate the law for the entire nation. [01:06] In practice, this meant that if any one of the nearly 700 federal judges [01:11] disagreed with the policy of a duly elected president of the United States, [01:16] he or she could block that policy from going into effect, [01:20] or at least delay it for many years. [01:22] Tie it up in the court system. [01:24] This was a colossal abuse of power, [01:27] which never occurred in American history prior to recent decades. [01:31] And we've been hit with more nationwide injunctions than were [01:34] issued in the entire 20th century together. [01:38] Think of it more than the entire 20th century. [01:41] Me, I'm grateful to the Supreme Court for stepping in and solving this very, [01:48] very big and complex problem. [01:50] And they've made it very simple. [01:52] I want to thank Justice Barrett, [01:54] who wrote the opinion brilliantly, [01:56] as well as Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Alito, [02:00] Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Thomas. 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