The supreme court majority continues to defy both precedent and rule of law in order to reflect the whims of the current régime. This time around, they’ve twisted law and logic to allow breathing room for Trump’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship. While their latest ruling does not enshrine the EO into law, it makes the order harder to challenge comprehensively. Knowing this was likely to happen, the ACLU immediately filed a nationwide, class-action lawsuit challenging the EO, because class-action suits remain one of the last avenues to comprehensively challenge a heinous order like this.

Karla McKanders, director of the ACLU Legal Defense Fund’s Thurgood Marshall Institute, said “The Trump administration’s executive order is an unlawful attempt to entrench racial hierarchies and establish a second class of citizens in the United States. We will continue working to ensure that birthright citizenship — a right granted by the U.S. Constitution — is protected, and that families are not torn apart because of this executive order.”

This news comes on the heels of the racist backlash around Zohran Mamdani winning the democratic primary of the NYC mayoral election. While right wing influencers and GOP politicians traded racist and islamophobic epithets online about Mamdani’s upbringing, the President jumped into the fray earlier this week by threatening to revoke Mamdani’s citizenship because of his support for Palestinian rights and his promise that if he was elected mayor, he would do everything in his power to stop ICE from terrorizing the people of New York City.

(Taken from an email sent to me by Never Again Action.)