So check this out
- Mar 28
- 2 min read
Updated: Mar 29
Number of injunctions per President.

So our judiciary was able to function for approximately 200 years without ever having to issue a national injunction. 0ur district court judges stuck to their lanes and their district authority.
Now to the best of my abilities, I have not found that any of the injunctions handed down to Bush and Obama were overturned on appeal. This would suggest that there may have been some legitimate reason to have issued these. But there were only about 1.125 of these a year, so they were not very common. I did not try to go through the Trump or Biden years. Maybe when I have a spare week to waste.
So far several of the national injunctions put in place in this term have been lifted by either the appellate or Supreme court (I believe we are up to five so far or 33% of them). Even many people on the left acknowledge that some of these injunctions will likely be overturned, but argue that they are necessary for whatever reasons... when in fact everyone understands that they are political in nature and flat out designed to undermine the Trump Presidency. Most of the right suggest that many of these will be overturned, that the Administration will likely just need to tweak others to move past the rulings, and that a few will likely be upheld. Some (like the most recent deportations of the Venezuelan street gang members) seem to have garnered arguments on both sides and neither is backing down on that one.
At the end of the day, our district courts are no longer just district courts. They are political pawns being used to further a political cause. This was never their design and may actually turn out to work to their disadvantage long term. Not that most of these judges care either about their own design or the long term repercussions.
Roberts is reading the room alright, and as long as there's no price to be paid by him personally or by the USSC, he'll continue to sit on his hands and do nothing. I can't see how he or the court has anything to lose by doing nothing and "staying above the fray." That's his calculus.
Thomas and Alito must be spitting nails at this point.
If Roberts has any ability to "read the room" - then he will understand how frustrated most everyone is in the total "inaction" by the USSC and the way they just let the judicial branch run over the other two branches.
My biggest fear is that John Roberts will allow this bullshit to continue to "protect the institution" of the USSC.
Another world-class Bush fuck-up was appointing that asshole as CJ.