President Trump praised the Supreme Court for its decision Friday limiting the ability of federal judges to impose nationwide injunctions, calling it a “monumental victory for the Constitution.”

In comments at the White House, the president said Friday, “This morning, the Supreme Court has delivered a monumental victory for the Constitution, the separation of powers, and the rule of law in striking down the excessive use of nationwide injunctions to interfere with the normal functioning of the executive branch.” 

The Supreme Court on Friday curbed the use of nationwide injunctions by federal judges, a practice the president and his allies have railed against as blocking or hindering their agenda. In a 6-3 decision that stemmed from the president’s executive order aimed at ending birthright citizenship, the Supreme Court said universal injunction orders likely exceeded the authority Congress has given the federal courts. 

Mr. Trump called the use of nationwide injunctions “a grave threat to democracy, frankly.” 

Thanks to this decision, the president said the administration can “now promptly file to proceed with numerous policies that have been wrongly enjoined on a nationwide basis,” including his effort to end birthright citizenship. Attorney General Pam Bondi predicted the Supreme Court would “most likely” rule on the merits of the birthright citizenship case during the next Supreme Court term, which begins this fall. 

The president thanked Barrett for writing the opinion “brilliantly,” and also the justices who sided with her. 

In the dissenting opinion, Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote, “No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates. 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,” and the court’s ruling means that “absent cumbersome class-action litigation, courts cannot completely enjoin even such plainly unlawful policies unless doing so is necessary to afford the formal parties complete relief.”

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche also applauded other Supreme Court rulings, including a decision Friday to allow parents in a Maryland school district to opt their children out of storybooks based on objections to their approach to gender and sexuality. 

“I think the ruling was a great ruling, and I think it’s a great ruling for parents,” the president said.

Melissa Quinn

contributed to this report.