Trump v. Cook · ¶161

Even if Cook had a right of action that overcame sovereign immunity, this Court’s precedents would foreclose the preliminary injunction that she obtained here. The District Court issued a preliminary injunction, which is an equitable remedy. See Grupo Mexicano de Desarrollo, S. A. v. Al liance Bond Fund, Inc., 527 U. S. 308, 318–319 (1999). The equitable jurisdiction of the federal courts is limited to “only those sorts of equitable remedies traditionally accorded by courts of equity at our country’s inception.” CASA, 606 U. S., at 841 (internal quotation marks omitted). Traditionally, courts of equity could not grant injunctions to wrongly removed officers to restore them to office. “No principle of the law of injunctions, and perhaps no doctrine of equity jurisprudence is more definitely fixed or more clearly established than that courts of equity will not interfere by injunction to…

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