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. (RELATED: Trump’s War To End Birthright Citizenship Is Far From Over)
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.”
WASHINGTON, DC – JUNE 27: U.S. President Donald Trump, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche hold a press conference on recent Supreme Court rulings in the briefing room at the White House on June 27, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
“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. “That fear is multiplied for parents who face further concern that their baby’s removal would be to a country where their lives or freedom would be in danger.”
Laplante found the groups are likely to succeed in challenging the order and suffer “irreparable harm” if it is not blocked in the meantime.
“The preliminary injunction is just not a close call to the court,” Laplante said during the hearing, according to CNN. “The deprivation of US citizenship and an abrupt change of policy that was longstanding … that’s irreparable harm.”
Laplante paused his order for seven days to provide time for the Trump administration to appeal.
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