Bush-Appointed Judge Steps In To Subvert Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order

A federal judge issued a new nationwide block Thursday on President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting birthright citizenship.

District Court Judge Joseph Laplante, a George W. Bush appointee in New Hampshire, sided with immigrant advocacy groups who asked to certify a nationwide class of babies whose citizenship status would be impacted by the order.

His ruling is the first since the Supreme Court’s decision June 27 reining in lower court’s ability to issue nationwide injunctions, which left room for plaintiffs to still file class action lawsuits to block the executive order.

Hours after the Supreme Court’s ruling, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), along with other left-wing groups like the Democracy Defenders Fund and NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, filed a new class action lawsuit challenging the order.

In her dissenting opinion, Justice Sonia Sotomayor suggested migrants would be “well advised to file promptly class action suits and to request temporary injunctive relief.”

“Improperly threatening children with arrest, detention, and deportation, and forcing them to grow up in fear of immigration enforcement, imposes harms on those children and their parents,” the lawsuit argued