Attorney General Barr Criticizes Nationwide Injunctions

Attorney General Barr Criticizes Nationwide Injunctions
U.S. Attorney General William Barr at the Department of Justice in Washington on May 9, 2019. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Matthew Vadum
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Attorney General William P. Barr, in a speech this week, took aim at the growing trend of unelected federal judges vetoing presidential actions by issuing sweeping nationwide injunctions against government policies.

These nationwide or “non-party” injunctions, which are relatively new in the American experience, reach beyond the controversy being litigated and allow judges to impose their will in parochial or regional disputes on the entire country.