Good morning! The Supreme Court will issue opinion(s) at 10 a.m. In the meantime, you might be interested to read about how the conservative legal movement's opposition to nationwide injunctions seems to have evaporated upon Joe Biden's inauguration! slate.com/news-and-polit…
While bad-faith trolls may miss this point, what's fascinating is that conservative judges barely even bother to justify their nationwide injunctions. This judge, for instance, provided one sentence of conclusory reasoning after claiming to "disfavor" nationwide injunctions. 
By performatively wringing their hands over nationwide injunctions—then issuing them anyway with the thinnest, most conclusory reasoning—conservative judges are trying to have it both ways: Get credit for questioning nationwide injunctions while handing them out willy-nilly.
The scope of an injunction falls under the discretion of the district court. If conservative judges genuinely opposed nationwide injunctions, they could absolutely craft a narrow remedy—no precedent *requires* them to enjoin a policy nationwide. It's optional; they do it anyway.
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