30-06-2025
- Politics
- Wall Street Journal
A Return to Judicial Sanity
This column has been making the case that a single federal judge should not be able to dictate policy nationwide. Thank goodness the Supreme Court, in a majority opinion from Justice Amy Coney Barrett, took an important step on Friday to limit the use of universal injunctions. Some liberals are howling, but not all of them.
Nicholas Bagley is a law professor at the University of Michigan and former chief legal counsel to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D., Mich.). He writes in the Atlantic that the Court's ruling 'is not, as the dissenting Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson would have it, 'an existential threat to the rule of law.'' Mr. Bagley notes:
