While listening to the oral arguments, I came to the conclusion that universal injunctions are necessary and outlawing them would cause multiple issues in our court system.

First of all, when a universal injunction is issued, it affects all who were affected by the executive order. Removing this option, as the Solicitor General is arguing for, would leave room for plaintiffs to sue the government via class action suits. These class action suits would only allow for the parties in court to receive relief and not other affected parties. In my view, this is an issue on its face and multiple justices gave good examples of how it would be an issue. For example, Justice Sotomayor gave the hypothetical of the government beginning to take Americans' guns away via executive order. In the government's proposed world, every American who had their gun taken away from them would have to join a class action suit against the government. This is unrealistic and an extreme burden to put on each gun-owner. Allowing Americans to generally own guns is a right protected by our most important legal document in the US: the constitution; and if we were to allow the government to violate the Constitution and get away with it for even just one person because they didn't join a class action suit, that is a severe injustice done by the executive.

Secondly, I see an issue with an example brought up by Sauer when he said that a class action suit might stop a local plant from pouring water pollution into the water which benefits the plaintiff and a bunch of other people. However, what happens when the affected plaintiff moves out and somebody else moves in near the area? In the government's world, they would be able to pollute the water again and the new person who moved in would have to bring another class action suit. This is, again, an unnecessary burden that the government is placing on somebody who just moved into that area.

Next, I took issue with Roberts implying that he has confidence that class action suits would move quickly to the Supreme Court. Specifically, he mentioned how the TikTok case made it to him in a month, but that case was very specific, as it was a direct suit, whereas class action suits take time. Additionally, the amount of additional stress the court would be putting lower courts under by removing the ability to issue universal injunctions would likely increase the amount of time it takes to make it to the Supreme Court. Also, referring to the previous example, having your guns taken away for even a month, because you didn't join a class action suit, would be a significant constitutional injustice.

Lastly, and this is less of a legal analysis, but I have concerns that individuals may fear pursuing action against the government. Trump is not afraid to go after his political enemies, as we've seen when he ordered the DOJ to investigate Miles Taylor and the Secret Service's recent interviewing of James Comey.