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Washington – Almost as soon as the The Supreme Court made public its decision Limiting the ability of judges to block the plan of President Donald Trump to end citizenship of the right of birth, the challenges have brought new legal complaints in search of the same result by a different means.
Although the Supreme Court said on Friday that judges could not issue “universal injunctions” which can apply on a national scale in many cases, it has left the complainants to request a large recovery via collective appeals.
The American Civil Liberties Union has filed such a prosecution in New Hampshire in the name of immigrants whose children cannot obtain American citizenship at birth if Trump’s order was to enter into force.
In a distinct case of Maryland, in which groups had previously obtained a national injunction, the lawyers filed a modified complaint requesting a similar repair on the scale of the class for any person carried out by the Plan of Trump in the hours following the decision written by Judge Amy Coney Barrett.
“Each court to examine this cruel ordinance agrees that it is unconstitutional,” said ACLU lawyer Cody Wofsy. “The decision of the Supreme Court has not remotely suggested the opposite.”
As part of the Trump plan, citizenship of the birth law would be limited to those who have at least one parent who is an American citizen or permanent resident. It is in contradiction with the Widely accepted understanding of the 14th amendment to the Constitution – that it grants citizenship to anyone born in the United States, to a few minor exceptions.
William Powell, a lawyer involved in the Maryland case, told journalists that the modified complaint would seek to “certify a national class of all those affected by the decree”.
This would include babies already born and babies to be born in the future, as well as their parents, he said.
Friday, the Brett Kavanaugh judge, seemed to approve the idea of collective appeal, claiming that the complainants can “sometimes seek to make collective appeals … and ask a court to grant a preliminary repair on the scale of the class which can, for example, be on the level of the State, on a regional or even national level”.
The Supreme Court has limited the scope of the injunction in the Maryland case, as well as two other national injunctions imposed by the judges of the state of Washington and Massachusetts in the affairs carried by the states.
States cannot bring together collective appeals, but Barrett wrote in his opinion that they could still request a large relief in their cases. This leaves open the possibility of injunctions covering anyone who lives in a state and potentially even children born elsewhere but move to a covered state.
Samuel Bray, criticism of the national scale at the Faculty of Law of Notre Dame whose work has been cited in the decision, said that individual states and complainants can still obtain large injunctions against the decree of the citizenship of birth, potentially even on a national scale.
“I do not expect the decree will come into force,” he added.
We still do not know how the Ministry of Justice will react to new complaints.
But during a press conference on Friday, Trump clearly indicated that the administration would proactively use the decision of the Supreme Court not only to strengthen its proposal as a citizenship of the birth law, but also To move forward on other policies which were blocked by the judges at the national level.
“Thanks to this decision, we can now deposit quickly to carry out many policies that have been wrongly overrun at national level,” said the president.
Lindsey Pipia contributed.
