(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) WASHINGTON, June 27 (KUNA) - US President Donald J. Trump hailed as "an amazing decision" and "a monumental victory for the Constitution" the ruling delivered by the Supreme Court on Friday to strike down the excessive use of nationwide injunctions to interfere with the normal functioning of the executive branch.
"I was elected on a historic mandate, but in recent months we've seen a handful of radical left judges effectively try to overrule the rightful powers of the president to stop the American people from getting the policies that they voted for in record numbers," he said a joint news conference with Secretary of Justice Pamela Jo Bondi.
"It was a grave threat to democracy, frankly, and instead of merely ruling on the immediate cases before them, these judges have attempted to dictate the law for the entire nation.
"In practice, this meant that if any one of the nearly 700 federal judges disagreed with the policy of a duly elected president of the United States, he or she could block that policy from going into effect or at least delay it for many years, tied up in the court system.
"This was a colossal abuse of power, which never occurred in American history prior to recent decades and we've been hit with more nationwide injunctions than were issued in the entire 20th century together.
"I'm grateful to the Supreme Court for stepping in and solving this very, very big and complex problem," Trump stressed.
"Thanks for this decision and thanks to this decision, we can now promptly file to proceed with numerous policies that have been wrongly enjoined on a nationwide basis," he noted.
"And some of the cases we're talking about would be ending birthright citizenship, which now comes to the fore.
"That was meant for the babies of slaves. It wasn't meant for people trying to scam the system and come into the country on a vacation.
"In fact, it was the same date, the exact same date, the end of the Civil War. It was meant for the babies of slaves and it's so clean and so obvious," President Trump added.
On her part, Pam Bondi said Birthright citizenship will be decided in October in the next session by the Supreme Court, unless it comes down in the next few minutes.
"-- if there's a birthright citizenship case in Oregon, it will only affect the plaintiff in Oregon, not the entire country. -- but that's pending litigation, and we're waiting on that in the next term," she said, adding, "We're thrilled with their decision today." (end)
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