A federal judge in New Hampshire again blocked the Trump administration’s effort to end birthright citizenship Thursday, the first such ruling since a Supreme Court decision tossed the first court orders to block the policy nationwide.
Thursday’s ruling from Judge Joseph Laplante of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire came on behalf of a putative group of all children who would be affected by Trump’s policy. Laplante was one of the federal judges whose initial injunctions were reversed by the high court.
Experts said cases like the one involved in Thursday’s ruling will serve as the testing ground for courtroom fights over Trump’s broader efforts to reshape the federal government without input from Congress after last month’s Supreme Court decision restricting lower courts’ ability to issue nationwide orders against executive branch policies.
