Maddow Blog-Trump's executive order restricting birthright citizenship blocked by federal judge

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The Supreme Court left open a door to challenging the executive order restricting birthright citizenship. The ACLU walked right through.

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Trump’s order, however, continues to fare poorly in the courts. NBC News reported:

A federal judge in New Hampshire granted class-action status to a lawsuit seeking to protect babies who would be denied birthright citizenship by the Trump administration and granted a temporary block of the order restricting birthright citizenship from going into effect throughout the country. The suit was brought on behalf of a pregnant immigrant, immigrant parents and their infants and had sought class action status for all babies around the country who would be affected by Trump’s executive order and their parents.

NBC News’ report added that the judge in the case “ordered a preliminary injunction temporarily blocking Trump’s order from going into effect, but stayed his order for seven days, allowing the government time to appeal” — which it almost certainly will.

The ruling in the case was issued by U.S. District Court Judge Joseph Laplante, who was appointed to the federal bench by George W. Bush.

While readers might’ve seen headlines about a related Supreme Court ruling last month, as my MSNBC colleague Jordan Rubin explained, the justices’ highly controversial opinion focused largely on the judiciary’s authority, not on the underlying constitutional issue and the legality of Trump’s order itself.

Within hours of the Supreme Court’s ruling, which left open the possibility of using class action lawsuits to challenge the White House’s policy, the ACLU filed just such a case. On Thursday morning, it scored a key victory. Watch this space.

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1. The ACLU is fighting the good fight

I am proud of them

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2. Important - Get thee to the greatest page

for visibility

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3. Kick

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4. Makes me happy I rejoined the ACLU

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5. Fukkkem

tRUMP!

Nuf sed.

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6. Thank you, ACLU.

You've stopped, at least temporarily, Trump's assault of the Constitution.
We'll have to see what the Supreme Whores' final word is, but Trump's quest to drive non-whites from our country has been extinguished.

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7. TY & Judge Joseph Laplante.. Hope

it ends Well!

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8. A federal judge released his 38-page written order expanding upon his ruling BLOCKING Trump's birthright citizenship ban

This will be fun reading

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9. Democracy Docket-Federal Judge Again Blocks Trump Bid to End Birthright Citizenship

I have read the executive order and was shocked that a lawyer may have had a part in drafting this order. There is a reason no court has upheld this attempt to gut the 14th Amendment

Federal Judge Again Blocks Trump Unconstitutional Bid to End Birthright Citizenship
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— Hearts and Minds (@nocoguy.bsky.social) 2025-07-11T00:03:06.318Z

https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/judge-blocks-trump-birthright-citizenship-order/

President Donald Trump signing executive orders. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
A federal judge Thursday again blocked President Donald Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship.

District Judge Joseph Laplante’s sweeping ruling is significant, as it comes just days after the Supreme Court curtailed federal judges’ ability to issue nationwide injunctions.

The order from Laplante, an appointee of former President George W. Bush, is not a nationwide injunction but applies to a nationwide class of children whose citizenship would be threatened by the president’s executive order.

The order, signed on Trump’s first day in office, attempts to strip citizenship from those born to parents living in the U.S. illegally or temporarily. It is a direct challenge to the 14th Amendment, which states that everyone born on U.S. territory is a citizen, regardless of their descent.

Laplante certified the class and blocked Trump’s order at the request of immigrant rights advocates who filed a class action lawsuit shortly after the Supreme Court’s ruling on nationwide injunction.

The class is slightly narrower than the one originally sought by plaintiffs, which included the children’s parents.