Mullin v. Doe · ¶43

A divided D. C. Circuit panel likewise declined to issue a stay. It noted that many other courts had held that they had jurisdiction to consider similar claims, and it found that the Government had failed to show that it would suffer irreparable harm. According to the majority, the Government’s assertion that the District Court had intruded on the Executive Branch’s foreign-policy prerogatives was a mere “‘generalized assertio[n] of injury’” and insufficient to support a stay. 2 App. 720.

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