Another day, another black-robed tyrant attempting to usurp authority from America’s duly elected president.
On Thursday, U.S. District Court Judge Joseph Laplante announced that he would issue a preliminary injunction against President Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship for illegals and narrow the class covered to children only.
Laplante, who was nominated by George W. Bush, also said he would grant a 7-day stay of order for “court efficiency.”
As The Straits Times reported, Laplante made the ruling after the ACLU and other illegal alien activists begged him to grant class action status to a lawsuit they filed seeking to represent any babies whose citizenship status would be threatened by the implementation of Trump’s directive.
Laplante agreed to certify the plaintiffs as a class representing the babies and said the decision to issue a nationwide injunction was “not a close call.”
“That’s irreparable harm, citizenship alone,” he said. “It is the greatest privilege that exists in the world.”
This ruling came after the U.S. Supreme Court on June 27 restricted the ability of judges to block Trump’s policies using nationwide injunctions.
In a 6–3 decision, the Court sided with the Trump administration, ruling that federal district courts lack the constitutional or statutory authority to issue so-called ‘universal injunctions’ — sweeping orders that block government policies nationwide, often at the request of left-wing advocacy groups.
Under the Supreme Court’s ruling, Trump’s executive order would take effect on July 27.
The ACLU and others filed the suit just hours after the Supreme Court ruling.
According to Trump, the 14th Amendment is being hijacked by the left to give citizenship to ‘anchor babies,’ children of illegal migrants.
Here is what the order states:
“It is the policy of the United States that no department or agency of the United States government shall issue documents recognizing United States citizenship, or accept documents issued by State, local, or other governments or authorities purporting to recognize United States citizenship, to persons: (1) when that person’s mother was unlawfully present in the United States and the person’s father was not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of said person’s birth, or (2) when that person’s mother’s presence in the United States was lawful but temporary, and the person’s father was not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of said person’s birth.”
Trump goes on to explain in the executive order why the 14th Amendment has always excluded infants born individuals illegally present in the United States.
[The] Fourteenth Amendment has never been interpreted to extend citizenship universally to everyone born within the United States. The Fourteenth Amendment has always excluded from birthright citizenship persons who were born in the United States but not “subject to the jurisdiction thereof.” Consistent with this understanding, the Congress has further specified through legislation that “a person born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof” is a national and citizen of the United States at birth, 8 U.S.C. 1401, generally mirroring the Fourteenth Amendment’s text,” the order reads.
This is a breaking news story and will be updated.
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