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THE SUPREME COURT on Friday delivered a victory for President Trump by limiting the ability of federal judges to issue nationwide injunctions on a birthright citizenship case.

Trump called the 6-3 decision, which cut along ideological lines, a “monumental victory for the Constitution, the separation of powers and the rule of law.”

“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 power of the president,” Trump said at an impromptu press conference that also served as a victory lap.

“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,” he added.

Federal district court judges have issued dozens of nationwide injunctions blocking Trump’s orders on tariffs, immigration and many other issues.

Attorney General Pam Bondi said 35 of the 40 nationwide injunctions issued this year had come from five of the nation’s 94 federal judicial districts.

“They turned district courts into the imperial judiciary,” she said. “Active liberal judges have used these injunctions to block nearly all of President Trump’s polices.”

The ruling deals a blow to Democratic efforts to block some of Trump’s more controversial executive orders from going into effect.

“These injunctions — known as ‘universal injunctions’ — likely exceed the equitable authority that Congress has granted to federal courts,” Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote, representing the six conservative justices.

Trump said the ruling gives him free range to press ahead on all of the cases that have been blocked by nationwide injunctions.

“Thanks to this decision, we can now properly file to proceed with these numerous policies and those that have been wrongly enjoined on a nationwide basis, including birthright citizenship, ending sanctuary city funding, suspending refugee resettlement, freezing unnecessary funding, stopping federal taxpayers from paying for transgender surgeries and numerous other priorities of the American people,” Trump said.

BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP HANGS IN THE BALANCE

The ruling was ostensibly about Trump’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship, which had been blocked by a nationwide injunction.

That order can go into effect in some parts of the country for now, although the issue has not been resolved.

The Hill’s Zach Schonfeld explains:

“For now, the justices narrowed the lower court rulings to only block Trump’s order as applied to the 22 Democratic-led states, expectant mothers and immigration organizations that are suing. The Trump administration can now resume developing guidance to implement the order, though they must wait 30 days before attempting to deny citizenship to anyone.”

The ruling will allow plaintiffs to coordinate class action lawsuits against Trump’s birthright citizenship order, which curbs birthright citizenship for people born on U.S. soil if they don’t have at least one parent with permanent legal status.

Every lower court has so far found the order unconstitutional. And the three liberal justices issued a fiery defense.

“No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote on behalf of the liberal justices.

“Today, the threat is to birthright citizenship. Tomorrow, a different administration may try to seize firearms from law-abiding citizens or prevent people of certain faiths from gathering to worship,” she added.

The birthright citizenship case is expected to return to the Supreme Court in the fall after the high court’s summer break.

TRUMP CELEBRATES LGBTQ RULING

The Supreme Court on Friday also ruled 6-3 along ideological lines in favor of a group of Maryland parents seeking to opt their children out of classroom sessions using books with LGBTQ themes.

“In the absence of an injunction, the parents will continue to be put to a choice: either risk their child’s exposure to burdensome instruction, or pay substantial sums for alternative educational services,” Justice Samuel Alito wrote on behalf of the six conservative justices. “As we have explained, that choice unconstitutionally burdens the parents’ religious exercise.”

The court’s three liberal justices dissented.

“The result will be chaos for this Nation’s public schools,” Sotomayor wrote.

“The harm will not be borne by educators alone: Children will suffer too,” she added. “Classroom disruptions and absences may well inflict long-lasting harm on students’ learning and development.”

The parents were represented by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty and backed by the Trump administration.

"It’s a great ruling for parents," Trump said. "They lost control of the schools, they lost control of their child."

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