Overview

• The Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling held that federal judges lack authority to issue universal injunctions blocking President Trump’s birthright citizenship order and paused existing nationwide blocks for 30 days.
• The Justice Department informed U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman it will immediately draft public guidance but will not enforce the order before July 27 under the Supreme Court stay.
• Civil rights organizations including the ACLU and CASA have amended or refiled class-action lawsuits seeking nationwide relief against the executive order ahead of its potential implementation.
• President Trump’s directive instructs agencies to deny citizenship documents to children born in the United States to parents unlawfully present or temporarily authorized unless one parent is a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident.
• The Supreme Court did not address the order’s constitutionality, leaving its challenge to the 14th Amendment’s birthright clause affirmed by the 1898 Wong Kim Ark decision to lower courts for further review.