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How citizenship chaos was averted, for now, by a class action injunction against Trump’s birthright citizenship order

  • Written by Julie Novkov, Professor of Political Science and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, University at Albany, State University of New York
imageProtesters support birthright citizenship on May 15, 2025, outside of the Supreme Court in Washington.AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin

Legal battles over President Donald Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship continued on July 10, 2025, after a New Hampshire federal district judge issued a preliminary injunction that will, if...

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