Group suing over Trump's birthright order seeks to convert case to a class action lawsuit [View all]
Source: Politico
An organization representing immigrants fighting President Donald Trump's birthright citizenship order wasted little time seeking to recalibrate its legal strategy to block the president's policy despite the high court's restrictions on nationwide injunctions.
CASA Inc. is asking a federal judge in Maryland for an emergency block on Trump's policy -- which would deny citizenship to children of some immigrants born on U.S. soil -- and said it has refiled its broader lawsuit as a class action case.
Class action lawsuits are one of the ways that the Supreme Court explicitly indicated Friday were permissible to broadly block a federal government policy. It's among several exceptions or workarounds that Trump adversaries are poised to seize on after the justices sharply limited judges' ability to issue nationwide injunctions.
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And from Axios:
"Without a class-wide injunction, Defendants will deny thousands of babies in the putative class their constitutional and statutory right to United States citizenship, as well as all of the rights and privileges that citizenship entails," the complaint states.
The Supreme Court indicated in its Friday order that class action lawsuits are among the permitted methods to block federal government policy.
"Consistent with the Supreme Court's most recent instructions, the Court can protect all members of the putative class from irreparable harm that the unlawful Executive Order threatens to inflict," the suit states.
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