As legal challenges move forward, U.S. judges once again prevented President Donald Trump from executing an executive order to end birthright citizenship for some U.S. residents.
A New Hampshire judge approved a class action lawsuit against Trump’s executive order and temporarily prevented the president’s order from taking effect.
The class action lawsuit was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of immigrant parents and their babies.
The decision comes weeks after the Supreme Court introduced restrictions on how and when the federal court issued general injunctions. However, the decision still puts them through certain legal avenues.
Class action lawsuits were filed in conjunction with new standards set by the court after the Supreme Court’s ruling.
Still, the White House challenged the effectiveness of the judge’s ruling.
“Today’s decision is an obvious and illegal attempt to circumvent the Supreme Court’s clear order against universal relief. The judge’s ruling ignores the rule of law by abusing the class action certification process,” spokesman Harrison Fields said in a statement Thursday. “The Trump administration will fight hard against the attempts of these rogue district court judges to hinder the policy of President Trump’s election to enforce.”
The lawsuit argues that Trump’s order violates the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which determines that “all persons born or naturalized in the United States and are subject to their jurisdiction, are citizens of the United States and the country in which they reside.”
Trump has tried to revoke the rights of babies born to undocumented immigrants and foreign tourists as part of his crackdown on immigration.
The class action lawsuit attempts to challenge the order as a harmful and unconstitutional order, and the judge ruled that it could be conducted on behalf of the restricted affected infant.
The ruling also once again stopped Trump’s priority order. The judge has appealed to the government for seven days.
Restricting birthright citizenship was one of his first actions in office.
Several courts across the United States have issued injunctions nationwide because they consider the legal challenges of the order.
The Trump administration appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, deeming that judges have no right to block presidential orders nationwide when the court considers a case.
The Supreme Court’s conservative majority in Trump’s 6-3 ruling, which broadly undermined judicial power, although the judge did not address the constitutionality of Trump’s birthright citizen order.
Trump’s order is scheduled to take effect on July 27 after the Supreme Court ruling.
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