For all its talk about protecting democracy and defending institutions, the left has once again revealed that its supposed principles are only skin-deep. The Supreme Court’s recent decision in Trump v. CASA, Inc. has triggered predictable howls of protest from Democrats and the corporate media, who are now suddenly horrified by the idea of limiting judicial overreach. But here’s the kicker: just a year ago, many of these same voices agreed that nationwide injunctions were a dangerous abuse of judicial power.
In a sharp blow to the left’s favorite new narrative, CNN Senior Legal Analyst Elie Honig — no conservative by any stretch — shredded the left’s favorite talking points about the Supreme Court’s ruling.
Despite the media hysteria and the usual hand-wringing from Democrats, Honig pointed out that the ruling wasn’t about Donald Trump at all; it was a straightforward application of the law. The irony? The left is now attacking a decision that reins in executive overreach, something it openly wanted while staffers were running the country while Joe Biden was president.
During a recent segment of “The Source” on CNN, Honig emphasized that the 6-3 decision, which curbed federal judges' authority to issue nationwide injunctions, fundamentally strengthens the institutional power of the presidency itself, irrespective of the occupant. "This means that the president is far more powerful than the president was 24 hours ago," Honig stated, clarifying that "when I say the president, I mean Donald Trump, but I mean the presidency, the office, as an institution."
Honig underscored the nonpartisan nature of the ruling by highlighting the Biden administration's identical stance in a 2024 Supreme Court brief. He directly quoted the Biden team's argument: "The district court issued a nationwide injunction. Such universal remedies exceed the power of the courts and conflict with longstanding limits on equitable relief."
This parallel, Honig asserted, proves that the decision transcends partisan politics. "This should not be seen as some mad power grab by Donald Trump. It's the same thing Joe Biden tried to do," he noted.
Of course, the Biden administration wasn’t alone in opposing nationwide injunctions. More evidence of the left’s rank hypocrisy came straight from the Supreme Court bench, courtesy of Justice Elena Kagan. In Trump v. CASA, Inc., Kagan dissented in the case, aligning herself with the left’s sudden love affair with nationwide injunctions. But just two years ago, she was blasting those same injunctions as reckless judicial overreach.
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Back in 2022, when conservatives were the ones challenging President Biden’s executive orders, Kagan had this to say: “This can’t be right that one district judge can stop a nationwide policy in its tracks and leave it stuck for the years that it takes to go through a normal process.”
It’s a blatant double standard that exposes exactly what’s at play. Under Trump, nationwide injunctions were the left’s go-to tactic — blue-state judges handed them out like candy to block conservative policies on a whim. How much clearer can it get? The left’s newfound hostility to judicial restraint has nothing to do with legal philosophy and everything to do with raw politics.
The Supreme Court’s ruling is a necessary correction, and the left’s outrage proves just how little they care about the Constitution when it’s not working in their favor.
