Trump finds new target in crusade against judges: Nationwide injunctions

Washington — President Trump has made no secret of his disapproval of a federal judge who temporarily blocked his administration's efforts to deport Venezuelan migrants suspected of being gang members under a 1789 law.

While the president's crusade has included calls for the judge, James Boasberg, to be impeached by the House, Mr. Trump and his administration are also taking aim at a form of judicial relief that has temporarily impeded implementation of his second-term agenda and also been a headache for his predecessors in the White House.

Known as nationwide or universal injunctions, at least a dozen of these orders have been issued by judges overseeing the more than 100 cases challenging the policies rolled out by Mr. Trump. District court judges have temporarily blocked the president's effort to ban transgender people from serving in the military, his executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship and the administration's mass firings of federal probationary workers, among others.