CONCORD, New Hampshire ¨C A federal judge on Thursday again barred U.S. President Donald Trump¡¯s administration from denying citizenship to some babies born in the U.S., making use of an exception to overcome the U.S. Supreme Court¡¯s recent ruling that restricted the ability of judges to block that and other policies nationwide.
U.S. District Judge Joseph Laplante ruled at a hearing in Concord, New Hampshire, after immigrant rights advocates implored him to grant class action status to a lawsuit they filed seeking to represent any children whose citizenship status would be threatened by the implementation of Trump¡¯s executive order curtailing automatic birthright citizenship.
The ruling is far from the last word in the legal battle over Trump¡¯s order, which he signed in January on his first day back in office. The judge paused his ruling for seven days to give the Trump administration time to appeal, which a Justice Department lawyer at the hearing indicated would certainly happen.
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