Federal Court Issues Class Action Injunction Against Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Executive Order
In the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Trump v. CASA, barring nationwide injunctions, most informed observers expected courts to instead certify broad class actions against Donald Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order (which denies birthright citizenship to children of undocumented immigrants and non-citizens present on temporary visas). That’s precisely what happened today.
Federal District Judge Joseph Laplante has certified a class consisting of all current and future children who stand to lose citizenship rights because of Trump’s order, and issued a preliminary injunction barring enforcement of the order against all members of that class.
Obviously, the administration will appeal the class certification and injunction, and the issue could well get back to the Supreme Court. Perhaps sooner rather than latter.
I am no class action expert. But, for what little it’s worth, I think this class does meet the Rule 23 requirements of numerosity (the class has hundreds of thousands of members), commonality (the class members all have an obvious common interest in getting citizenship, thereby avoiding potential deportation), typicality (the class representatives litigating the case seem to be typical of the class as a whole), and adequacy of representation (the ACLU lawyers litigating the case
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