Overview

• The Supreme Court’s June 27 decision in Trump v. CASA barred universal injunctions but explicitly allowed broad relief through properly certified class actions.
• On July 10, U.S. District Judge Joseph Laplante certified a nationwide class of current and future children and issued a preliminary injunction blocking the executive order’s enforcement.
• Appeals in the First Circuit will decide whether the injunction can stand, with the order poised to take effect in up to 28 states lacking similar court protection if it is overturned.
• Implementation challenges loom because state birth certificates do not record parental immigration status, risking uneven application and administrative confusion.
• The ACLU and several state attorneys general have filed class-action suits to defend the 14th Amendment’s Citizenship Clause, while Justice Sotomayor warned that curbing broad injunctions undermines judicial oversight of executive power.