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BumRushDaShow

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Sun Jun 29, 2025, 06:21 AM Jun 2025

New Jersey AG 'confident' in battle against Trump birthright citizenship order

Source: The Hill

06/28/25 6:35 PM ET


New Jersey Attorney General Matt Platkin, one of the plaintiffs in a 22-state lawsuit against President Trump’s executive order curbing birthright citizenship, said Saturday he was “confident” the order could still be blocked nationwide following a Friday Supreme Court ruling that broadly restricted the ability of the court system to halt the president’s policies.

“There’s a whole range of administrative challenges that would make this completely unworkable, which is why I’m confident we’ll get the nationwide relief we’ve sought when we go back to the lower courts,” Platkin said in an MSNBC appearance.

The nation’s highest court ruled Friday that Trump’s executive order could be partially enforced because lower-court judges had exceeded their authority in issuing nationwide injunctions that blocked the policy. The ruling did not address the underlying constitutionality of Trump’s order, but still drastically limited a judicial tool that has been used for decades, including to block federal policies from multiple presidential administrations.

New Jersey is one of 22 Democratic-led states, along with a group of expectant mothers and immigration organizations, that sued to block the executive order almost immediately after it was issued in January. The injunctions issued by three federal judges in Washington, Maryland and Massachusetts in the ensuing months granted relief not just to those plaintiffs, but everyone in the country.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5375361-new-jersey-ag-confident-in-battle-against-trump-birthright-citizenship-order/

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New Jersey AG 'confident' in battle against Trump birthright citizenship order (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Jun 2025 OP
Apparently, the Trump-corrupted courts... GiqueCee Jun 2025 #1
Well said! Bayard Jun 2025 #2

GiqueCee

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1. Apparently, the Trump-corrupted courts...
Sun Jun 29, 2025, 09:41 AM
Jun 2025

... are ignoring the irrefutable fact that birthright citizenship is enshrined in the Constitution, and not subject to the malicious frenzy of the Orange Skidmark's executive orders. He will never be the king, and his promise during his campaign that, "You'll never have to vote again" didn't register in the vapid intellectual desert in which his cult followers reside. He phrased it as "you won't HAVE to" when he meant, "you won't be ALLOWED to vote ever again." But critical thinking has never been their strong suit, and it never will be. Just like the pitiful fools that wheezed, "COVID is a hoax!" even as they died from it, Trump-humpers will sing his praises even as their lives are torn apart by his evil, Putin-ordered policies.

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