Overview

• U.S. District Judge Joseph Laplante in New Hampshire issued a nationwide preliminary injunction halting President Trump’s birthright citizenship decree.
• Laplante granted a class-action motion treating every child who would lose automatic citizenship under the order as one unified group.
• The injunction includes a seven-day window for the U.S. government to file an appeal before the stay takes effect.
• A June 27 Supreme Court ruling narrowed lower courts’ authority to issue nationwide injunctions, effectively making class-action suits the primary route to block the decree.
• Legal advocates warn the decree could strip citizenship from over 150,000 newborns each year and the ACLU hailed the decision as a major victory.