Yesterday's Supreme Court ruling is deeply troubling in multiple different ways, but the near term effect will be to sew chaos in the legal world. The implications are that you cannot have a national injunction from a local or district court, which seems reasonable at one level while being absolutely chaotic in the real world.
If you are being deported because you were born here but your parents were undocumented, then you would have to sue as an individual to get relief. Needless to say, most people cannot afford lawyers. This is, as Justice Jackson notes, an assault on the fabric of the law.
This ruling is ostensibly about stopping people from shopping for favorable judges - a tactic the right used a lot during Biden's term - that then apply nationally until a higher court can rule on it. This would seem to mean a patchwork of local rulings will take hold.
Meanwhile, the Shit Sandwich working it way through the Senate could also sew chaos into Medicard, Medicare, various Federal agencies...just mass pandemonium.
I suppose Republicans have, in the past, governed in a way to make the government terrible, then turned around and said, "Look, see! We were right! Government is terrible."
I'm skeptical it will work, and it backfired in places like Kansas under Sam Brownback. If it can backfire there, I'd say it will backfire in Florida, North Carolina and even Ohio.
What is the long term plan in destroying so much and creating so much chaos?
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