LEGAL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As the Trump administration seeks to obliterate Obama-era policies, progressive lawyers are racing to court asking for an extreme form of relief, urging judges to reach deep into their judicial tool kits and issue national — even global — injunctions.
Such injunctions are a relatively new phenomenon, and some legal scholars worry they are bad for the country and bad for courts.
The experts say the extreme remedy squelches the benefit of having multiple judges consider a question and gives lawyers an incentive to ‘judge shop’ their cases to judges they believe will rule in their favor.
Court battles are raging across the country less than a year into the Trump administration. Already, federal judges have issued injunctions on various versions of President Donald Trump’s travel ban and his policy toward so-called sanctuary cities.
Finding success, liberal lawyers are also challenging — and sometimes asking for similar relief — in the areas of LGBT rights, Obama-era policies aimed at young undocumented immigrants brought to the US as children and the contraceptive mandate.
And that’s just the beginning.
Less than an hour after the administration announced a termination of cost-sharing reduction payments related to the Affordable Care Act late Thursday, attorneys general in New York and California warned they would go to court.”
-Ariane de Vogue, “Judges turn to extreme remedy to block Trump administration,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, Oct. 17, 2017 03:04pm