An immigrant support organization involved in the Supreme Court case that was announced on Friday as decided in the partial favor of the Trump administration has filed a work-around case, Politico reported.
CASA Inc. has been representing immigrant groups in the key birthright citizenship battle with the Trump administration. Trump signed an executive order in January stating birthright citizenship was not automatically extended to anyone born within the borders of the U.S. and that birthright citizenship was not granted to those born in the U.S. to parents who did not have legal status.
CASA initially secured a nationwide injunction against the Trump administration from enforcing that order. The Supreme Court on Friday decided in a 6-3 vote that the injunction was improper.
President Donald Trump hailed the ruling as a big win and justices for the ruling against nationwide injunctions of "radical left judges."
CASA pointed out the ruling was not about the validity of the Trump order.
"The decision does not address the lawfulness of the president's Executive Order attempting to limit birthright citizenship, which every lower court to address the issue has held to be unconstitutional.”
The Supreme Court ruling indicated that while nationwide injunctions were not the proper way for federal judges to block a government policy, a class-action lawsuit was one way to do so.
Within hours of the release of the Supreme Court ruling, CASA had reworked its case and refiled it as a class action lawsuit in Maryland federal court, requesting an emergency block against the birthright citizenship policy.
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