The 9th circuit ruling in East Bay Sanctuary Covenant, et al, v. Barr, et al. narrows a lower court national injunction against a rule making anyone who crossed the southern border but who did not apply for protection in a third country through which the alien passed on the way to the U.S. ineligible for asylum in the U.S.
The lower court's injunction still applies within the 9th Circuit but not elsewhere.
While the Court of Appeals still maintains that nationwide injunctions are worthwhile in some instances, this isn't one of them. Dang. Complaints about nationwide injunctions keep piling up, and it's time something was done to eliminate them.
Bob Goodlatte introduced legislation last year that would stop them. But once the House became dominated by Democrats, that was the end of that.
We'll just have to hope some future congress and president can come together on the issue. Or else maybe the Supreme Court will do it. Until then we are stuck with them.
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3:21 PM 8/17/2019
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