WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court's limiting federal judges from issuing nationwide injunctions threatens to upend numerous lawsuits that led to orders blocking Trump administration policies.
Multiple federal judges issued nationwide injunctions blocking President Donald Trump's order denying citizenship to U.S.-born children of people who are in the country illegally or temporarily. The high court's decision Friday came in a lawsuit over that order, but the justices left unclear whether the restrictions on could soon take effect in parts of the country.

This sketch depicts, from left, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John Roberts, Justice Samuel Alito, Justice Elena Kagan, Justice Brett Kavanaugh and Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson as the Justices announce opinions Friday at the Supreme Court in Washington.
Between the start of the new administration and mid-May, judges issued roughly 40 nationwide injunctions against the White House on topics including federal funding, elections rules and diversity and equity considerations. Attorneys involved in some of those cases vow to keep fighting, noting the high court left open other legal paths that could have broad nationwide effect.
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Here's a look at some of the cases that could be affected:
Election rules
On June 13, U.S. District Judge Denise J. Casper in Massachusetts հܳ’s. An executive order the Republican president issued in March sought to compel officials to require for everyone registering to vote for federal elections, accept only mailed ballots received by Election Day and condition federal election grant funding on states adhering to the new ballot deadline.
California was one of the plaintiffs in that suit. The office of the state's attorney general Rob Bonta said in an email it was assessing the effect of Friday's Supreme Court decision on all of the state's litigation.
Legal aid for migrants
A federal judge in California in April from cutting off funding for legal representation for unaccompanied migrant children. The administration appealed.
U.S. District Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin in San Francisco said there was “no practical way” to limit the scope of the injunction by party or by geography.
“Indeed, as discussed with the Government’s declarants at the preliminary injunction hearing, there exists only one contract for the provision of the subject funding, and it applies to direct legal services nationwide,” Martinez-Olguin wrote.
Plaintiffs’ attorney Adina Appelbaum, program director for the Amica Center for Immigrant Rights, said she didn't think the Supreme Court’s decision would significantly affect her case.
Still, she blasted it, saying the high court “turned its back on its role to protect the people,” including immigrants.
Diversity, equity and inclusion
A federal judge in February sweeping executive orders that sought to to end government support for programs promoting diversity, equity and inclusion.
U.S. District Judge Adam Abelson in Baltimore granted a preliminary injunction preventing the administration from terminating or changing federal contracts it considers equity-related.
An appeals court later put the decision on hold. Attorneys for the group Democracy Forward represented plaintiffs in the case.
The group's president and CEO, Skye Perryman, said she was disappointed by the Supreme Court’s ruling, calling it another barrier to seeking relief in court. Still, she said it was limited and could keep at least some decisions blocking the Trump administration in place.

Transgender rights supporters rally June 18 at the Lutheran Church of the Reformation on Capitol Hill in Washington, after the Supreme Court upheld Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors.
Transgender care
A federal judge in February stopped the administration from withholding federal funds from health care facilities that provide gender-affirming care to patients under the age of 19.
Explaining his reasoning for a nationwide injunction, U.S. District Judge Brendan Abell Hurson in Maryland said a “piecemeal approach is not appropriate in this case.”
“Significant confusion would result from preventing agencies from conditioning funding on certain medical institutions, while allowing conditional funding to persist as to other medical institutions,” he wrote.
An appeal in the case was on hold as the Supreme Court considered similar issues about minors and transgender health care. The high court recently upheld a Tennessee law banning key health care treatments for transgender youth.
Omar Gonzalez-Pagan, senior counsel for the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund Inc., was one of the attorneys who secured Hurson's ruling. He said the plaintiffs’ lawyers still were evaluating the possible impact of the Supreme Court’s decision, but he believed the high court recognized that “systematic, universal relief is sometimes appropriate.”
The White House is taking a victory lap after the United States Supreme Court limited the scope of nationwide injunctions by lower courts. (Scripps News)
Federal cuts
In May, a judge in Rhode Island blocked an executive order that sought to dismantle federal agencies supporting libraries, museums, minority businesses and parties in labor disputes.
The administration appealed.
Rhode Island was a plaintiff in the lawsuit. The state's attorney general, Peter F. Neronha, said in a statement Friday he would "continue to pull every available legal lever to ensure that Americans, all Americans, are protected from the progressively dangerous whims of this President.”
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Thanawala reported from Atlanta. Associated Press writers Alanna Durkin Richer, Lindsay Whitehurst, Christina Cassidy in Atlanta and Rebecca Boone in Boise, Idaho contributed to this report.
Pride parades around the world

People take part in the Pride Edinburgh 2025 parade through Edinburgh city center, Scotland, Saturday June 21, 2025. (Jane Barlow/PA via AP)

A woman dressed in a Lady Gaga iconic outfit takes part in the annual Gay Pride parade marking LGBTQ+ Pride Month, in Santiago, Chile, Saturday, June 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

A drag queen known as Raul poses for a photo during the annual Gay Pride parade marking LGBTQ+ Pride Month, in Santiago, Chile, Saturday, June 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

People take part in the annual Gay Pride parade marking LGBTQ+ Pride month, in Santiago, Chile, Saturday, June 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)

People take part in the Zurich Pride parade in Zurich, Switzerland, Saturday, June 21, 2025. (Michael Buholzer/Keystone via AP)

Two men wearing rainbow flags over their shoulders, walk hand-in-hand down Liberdade Avenue in Lisbon during the Europride Parade, Saturday, June 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)

People hold up fans with pro-Palestinian messages and shout slogans during the Europride Parade in Lisbon, Saturday, June 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)

Revelers dance down Liberdade Avenue in Lisbon during the Europride Parade, Saturday, June 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)

Revelers dance down Liberdade Avenue in Lisbon during the Europride Parade, Saturday, June 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)

Children wave as a parade float passes during the Kentuckiana Pride Parade on Saturday, June 21, 2025, in Louisville, Ky. (AP Photo/Jon Cherry)

People take part in the Pride Edinburgh 2025 parade through Edinburgh city centre, Scotland, Saturday June 21, 2025. (Jane Barlow/PA via AP)

A float passes under an overpass during the Kentuckiana Pride Parade on Saturday, June 21, 2025, in Louisville, Ky. (AP Photo/Jon Cherry)

People take part in a Pride parade in Berlin, Saturday, June 21, 2025. (Fabian Sommer/dpa via AP)

People take part in the Pride Edinburgh 2025 parade through Edinburgh city centre, Scotland, Saturday June 21, 2025. (Jane Barlow/PA via AP)

A reveler uses a portable fan while her friend takes a drink during the Europride Parade in Lisbon, Saturday, June 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)

Police work to prevent a dispute between a group with anti-gay sentiments and members of the LGBTQ+ community, during a Pride parade in Quito, Ecuador, Saturday, June 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)