Bangladesh, June 29 -- In a landmark 6-3 ruling on June 27, the US Supreme Court significantly curtailed the power of federal district courts to issue sweeping nationwide injunctions, declaring that such broad legal remedies exceed the authority granted by Congress. The decision comes in the case Trump v. CASA, Inc., which centered on lower courts responses to President Donald Trumps controversial executive order targeting birthright citizenship.

The Courts conservative majority, led by Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett, concluded that universal injunctions-orders issued by lower courts to halt a government policy for the entire nation-violate the limits of judicial power under Article III of the Constitution. “Federal courts do ...