"…The ruling marks an astonishing defeat for the Trump administration."

"…There’s still much more to go in this case, but it does appear that a clear majority of the Court is at least somewhat concerned about the way the Trump admin is rushing people onto planes to kick them out of the country without due process, and then you have Alito and Thomas whining in the corner that there’s no need to rush, even as detainees were being loaded into buses to take them to the airport."

"…The ruling extends the court’s April emergency order barring Trump from using the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to deport migrants held in a Texas detention facility, after lawyers said the detainees were being put on buses towards an airport without a chance to challenge the decision via habeas corpus petitions."

"…At least three federal judges have said Trump was improperly using the AEA to speed deportations of people the administration says are Venezuelan gang members."

"…The decision is a legal blow to Trump’s plans to whisk away untold numbers of migrants under the administration’s convoluted interpretation of the Alien Enemies Act."

"…Beyond the broader issue of the premise for these mass deportations under that particular legal authority, there are also questions about the methods the administration has used for determining who qualifies for deportation under the proclamation, further highlighting the importance of due process for individuals to be able to challenge their potential removal."

"…The decision is a significant loss for Trump, who wants to use the law to speed deportations – and avoid the kind of review normally required before removing people from the country."

"…The emergency appeal follows a decision from a federal court in California that temporary blocked the administration from conducting those layoffs and shrinking or eliminating entire components of agencies."

"…This case seems like a poster child for, not against, a nationwide injunction."

"…Any decision diminishing the authority of lower court judges to check a president’s agenda would necessarily be a boost to Trump."

"…The supreme court’s ruling, which will have profound implications for the Trump administration’s use of executive power to advance its agenda, extending well beyond immigration policy, is expected by the end of June or the beginning of July."

"…Long-term, birthright citizenship appears almost certain to survive."

"…Thursday’s oral arguments in the consolidated case, Trump v. CASA, Inc., dealt with whether federal judges have the power to issue nationwide injunctions that block the administration’s actions."

"…Kagan, who served as U.S. solicitor general during the Obama administration, asked Sauer why the government has only argued against the use of nationwide injunctions and not presented the “substantive question” about the constitutionality of the president’s executive order."

"…The Administration's effort are "making us nervous, for sure, as an aspirational parent.""

"…If a lower court judge was powerless to block an unconstitutional law for the whole country, Kagan pointed out, and only the party that loses a case can appeal it, the Court might never get the chance to say the executive order was constitutional."

"…It would be a roundabout way for the conservative-controlled Supreme Court to allow the Trump administration to implement its platform with little interference."

"…But here, it’s difficult to read the administration’s litigation strategy as anything other than an admission of weakness about the legality of Trump’s order and an attempt to implement it wherever it can by avoiding Supreme Court review."

"…If the high court dismembers universal injunctions in a misguided attempt to find some middle way, millions of future Americans poised to lose citizenship will be forced to attempt to litigate their rights one by one or in a potentially onerous class action, and district courts will lose their broader power to swiftly freeze unlawful government action across the board."

"…Legal experts have also said a ruling limiting federal courts’ ability to order a “national” or “universal” injunction to block Trump’s executive actions would in and of itself be transformative."

"…It was clear, almost immediately, that the court’s liberal wing would oppose Trump."

"…The hypothetical illustrates the potentially very messy consequences of the Supreme Court stripping district courts of their ability to issue nationwide injunctions in cases like those challenging the birthright citizenship executive order."

"…The outcome of the case will have massive ramifications, both for the application of the birthright citizenship policy and for Trump’s policies at large."

"…If Trump prevails, his administration could potentially enforce his desired citizenship policy in parts of the country where specific courts haven’t blocked it – creating different citizenship rules in different states while legal challenges continue."

"…The Supreme Court took the case from the shadow docket."

"…Though Trump’s birthright citizenship order is at the center of the Supreme Court case, the Justices may ultimately rule only on the issue of how federal courts are able to limit executive power through nationwide injunctions."

"…The Trump administration’s arguments against birthright citizenship for all are ahistorical, and make no sense when considered in the context of the Civil War and its aftermath."

"…Given that growth and large number of immigrants — 47.8 million in 2023 or 14% of the US population — Trump’s immigration agenda could have economic repercussions, CNN has reported."

"…Nationwide injunctions have long drawn complaints from justices in cases having nothing to do with birthright citizenship."

"…The reactions were swift."