By Randall Yip, Executive Editor
(This story is done in partnership with the URL Collective)
Three immigration advocacy groups this morning filed a class action suit to stop Trump’s executive order overturning birthright citizenship from going into effect.
If successful, a temporary injunction would halt the President’s executive order in all 50 states, according to the plaintiffs.
Casa, Asylum Seeker Advocacy and Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection at the Georgetown University Law Center filed the case. It came just moments after the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in Trump v Casa that district judges can’t issue nationwide orders but instead ruled such orders can only apply to their own districts.
The Trump administration, in filing its case, did not ask the court to rule on the constitutionality of birthright citizenship itself. Every district court that has heard such cases has ruled at least temporarily in favor of keeping birthright citizenship in place.
“Nothing in the majority opinion suggests in any way that the president’s executive order is legal, and it is not,” said William Powell, senior counsel for the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection.
That’s good news for Liza, a mother from Russia whose husband has applied for political asylum was pregnant when Trump signed his executive order in January on the first day of this second term. Her baby has since been born healthy and is currently a citizen of the United States. However, understandably she is nervous and opposes the Scotus ruling today.
“The executive order made us feel as though our baby was considered a nobody. And with today’s ruling, I know that so many other parents are feeling the same way,” she said. Liza is a pseudonym. She declined to give her real name.
So did Juana who is from Columbia. She spoke in Spanish through an interpreter.
Juana “is glad that there are actions that are going to happen now to ensure that every family is safe, and that every mother has hope that their child will be able to be born a United States citizen because that is their right and because it is what they deserve.”
(This story will be updated)
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