On Thursday, a federal judge prohibited the administration of President Donald Trump to enforce his executive order that limits the citizenship of birth rights throughout the country after the United States Supreme Court restricted the ability of judges to block their policies using national orders.
The United States District Judge, Joseph Laplante, in Concord, New Hampshire, issued the ruling after the defenders of immigrants implored that he grant the class action status to a lawsuit they filed to represent any baby whose citizenship state was threatened by the implementation of the Trump directive.
Laplante agreed that the plaintiffs could proceed as a class, which allows him to issue a new court order that blocks the implementation of the policy of the Republican President at the national level.
The question of whether to issue a court order “was not a close decision,” he said, noting that children could be deprived of US citizenship if Trump’s order entered into force.
“That is irreparable damage, only citizenship,” he said. “It is the greatest privilege that exists in the world.”
The judge said he would remain in his decision for a few days to allow the Trump Administration to appeal and issue a written decision at the end of the day.
The ACLU and others filed the lawsuit only a few hours after the Supreme Court on June 27 issued a ruling of 6-3, promoted by its conservative majority, which reduced three national mandates issued by judges in separate challenges to the Trump directive.
The demand was filed in the name of non -American citizens living in the country whose babies could be affected. According to the decision of the Supreme Court, Trump’s executive order would take effect on July 27.
Seeking to take an exception in the ruling of the Supreme Court, the lawyers of the plaintiffs argued that the decision allows judges to continue blocking Trump policies nationwide in collective demands.
The three judges who issued precautionary measures throughout the country found that Trump’s directive probably violates citizenship language at the 14th amendment of the Constitution of the United States.
The amendment establishes that all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to its jurisdiction, are citizens of the United States and the state in which they reside. “
The Department of Justice has argued that Trump’s order fits the Constitution and has asked Laplante to discover that the plaintiffs cannot sue as a class.
The ruling of the Supreme Court did not approach the legal merits of the Trump order, which the Republican president issued as part of his hard line immigration agenda on his first day back in office in January.
Trump’s order orders federal agencies to refuse to recognize the citizenship of children born in the United States who do not have at least a father who is an American citizen or a legal permanent resident, also known as the head of the “Green Card”.
According to the states led by the states led by the states led by Democrats and defenders of the rights of the rights of immigrants and the defenders of the rights of the rights of immigrants who have challenged it.
