#SCOTUS’ decision restricted the #power of lower-court judges to issue #NationwideInjunctions.

The states have argued #Trump’s #BirthrightCitizenship order is blatantly #unconstitutional & threatens millions of dollars for #HealthInsurance contingent on #citizenship. The issue is expected to move quickly back to SCOTUS.

The #SCOTUS June decision to scale back the ability of lower #courts to issue #NationwideInjunctions, & the administration’s success at persuading the justices to overturn about a dozen temporary blocks on its agenda in recent months, might only embolden #Trump officials to defy lower courts, several #legal experts said.

But #SCOTUS raised the possibility that #NationwideInjunctions are still permissible in certain circumstances, including #ClassActions, in which similarly situated people sue as a group, or if they are the only way to provide "complete relief" to litigants in a particular lawsuit.

Friday's hearing will shed light on how lower courts plan to address what providing complete relief entails, said George Washington University law professor Paul Schiff Berman.

In that 6-3 ruling authored by conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett, #SCOTUS directed lower court #judges like Sorokin that had blocked #Trump's policy to reconsider the scope of their orders.

Rather than address the legality of #Trump's executive order, the justices used the case to discourage nationwide, or “universal,” injunctions — in which a single district court judge can block enforcement of a federal policy across the country.

#Trump’s EO directs US agencies to refuse to recognize the #citizenship of children born in the #US after Feb 19 if neither their mother nor father is a US #citizen or lawful permanent resident.

The #states' case is back in Sorokin's courtroom so he can assess the impact of #SCOTUS’ *landmark* [insane] June 27th decision.

The #DOJ has argued that #Trump's order conforms with the #Constitution & has asked Laplante to find that the plaintiffs cannot sue as a #class.

#SCOTUS’ ruling did not address the legal merits of Trump's order, which the Republican president issued as part of his hardline #immigration agenda on his first day back in office in January.

The 3 judges who issued #NationwideInjunctions found that #Trump's directive likely violates #citizenship language in the US #Constitution's #14thAmendment. The amendment states that all "persons born or naturalized in the United States, & subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States & of the state wherein they reside."

Under #SCOTUS’ decision, Trump's #ExecutiveOrder would take effect on July 27.

Looking to seize upon an exception in the Supreme Court's ruling, the lawyers for the plaintiffs argued that the decision allows #judges to continue to block #Trump policies on a nationwide basis in #ClassAction lawsuits.

The judge said he would stay his ruling for a few days to allow the #Trump admin to appeal & would issue a written decision by the end of the day.

The #ACLU & others filed the suit just hours after #SCOTUS on June 27 issued a 6-3 ruling, by its conservative majority, that narrowed 3 #NationwideInjunctions issued by #judges in separate challenges to Trump's directive. The suit was filed on behalf of non-US citizens living in the #UnitedStates whose babies might be affected.

U.S. District Judge Joseph Laplante in Concord, New Hampshire, made the ruling after #ImmigrantRights advocates implored him to grant #ClassAction status to a lawsuit they filed seeking to represent any babies whose #citizenship status would be threatened by implementation of #Trump's directive.

Separately, on July 2, U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy during a hearing in Boston raised the possibility that he could on the same basis continue to block the US Department of #Defense from sharply cutting federal #research #funding provided to #universities throughout the country.

"There’s a strong argument that CASA doesn’t apply at all," Murphy said.

#Judges have used other legal tools to block #Trump admin policies on a nationwide basis, including by finding the govt failed to comply w/ administrative #law, another exception in #SCOTUS’ ban on #NationwideInjunctions.

Judges did so in 2 separate rulings last week blocking the admin from ending a program that allows 500k Haitians to stay & work temporarily in the #US, & requiring #HHS to restore govt websites that had been scrubbed early in Trump's tenure following an EO.

The process to certify a class can often take months. A snr White House ofcl told Reuters the #Trump admin will be watching #class certification decisions closely & plans to aggressively challenge them to prevent “abuse”of the process.

The govt says the named class plaintiffs in the New Hampshire case are too different from one another to be able to proceed as a #ClassAction. They include an #asylum seeker & someone on a #StudentVisa.

#ClassActions must follow what is known as #Rule23, which requires the plaintiffs to meet several elements including proving that the proposed #class members suffered the same #injury. Conservative #SCOTUS Justice Samuel #Alito warned lower courts against certifying nationwide classes without "scrupulous adherence to the rigors of Rule 23.”

The #Trump admin appealed the ruling, which White House *aide* #StephenMiller called a judge's attempt to "circumvent" #SCOTUS’ ruling by recognizing "a protected global 'class' entitled to admission into the United States."

"I think there's going to be a lot more #ClassActions," said Lee Gelernt, an attorney with the #ACLU, which brought the #asylum case.

On July 2, US District Judge Randolph Moss in Washington determined that #Trump's denial of #asylum to migrants on the southern #border exceeded the president's #authority.

He then certified a #class that covered all individuals subject to the presidential proclamation on asylum & issued an injunction to protect the class -- effectively a nationwide injunction.

The plaintiffs are asking US District Judge Joseph Laplante, who previously issued a more narrow #injunction blocking #Trump's EO, to go further this time by allowing the plaintiffs to sue as a #nationwide #class & issuing an order blocking Trump's ban from being enforced against members of the class.

At least one other #judge has already followed this formula.

The plaintiffs in the NH #BirthrightCitizenship case are looking to seize upon one of the major exceptions to #SCOTUS’ ruling. They argue it allows #judges to continue to block #Trump policies on a nationwide basis in #ClassAction lawsuits.

The lawsuit, which was filed by the #ACLU & others hours after the Supreme Court ruled, seeks class action status on behalf of babies who would be subject to Trump's #ExecutiveOrder & their parents.

Issued on #Trump’s first day back in office in January, the EO directs federal agencies to refuse to recognize the #citizenship of #children born in the #UnitedStates who do not have at least one parent who is an American #citizen or lawful permanent resident.