The Supreme Court, the only federal court actually authorized by the Constitution, ruled 6-3 that federal district judges don’t actually wield unlimited power over the entire country. This rollback of the ‘judicial coup’ which had district judges issuing nationwide injunctions binding the administration from implementing its chosen policies, not only in D.C. or in their district, but nationwide has outraged the ‘coupers’.

Nationwide injunctions by federal district judges had in recent months allowed them to function as the actual government, blocking any and all policies by the administration on farcial grounds such as the Administrative Procedures Act, claiming that the decisions were unjusified, and effectively allowing these judges to rule in the place of elected oficials.

This is not a broad rebuke. The majority opinion by Justice Amy Coney Barrett has plenty of hedges, but notes that there is no constitutional authority for injunctions that go beyond granting relief to the named plantiffs. That means you can expect the next wave of ACLU lawsuits to have a much broader class of plantiffs. But it at least begins the roillback of a judiical coup in which judges like Boasberg had insisted that they had unlimited powers over the country, its armed forces and diplomats abroad, and even foreign nations making them more powerful than presidents.

They’re not.