Judge blocks Trump’s birthright citizenship order nationwide – National & International News – THU 10Jul2025
Judge blocks Trump’s birthright citizenship order nationwide.
Israel kills 82 in Gaza while pursuing “peace” plan in Washington.
Judge blocks Trump’s birthright citizenship order nationwide
In a 6-3 decision last month, the Supreme Court sided with the Trump administration by striking down a nationwide injunction from a lower court blocking Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship for children born to mothers who are in the US illegally or temporarily. The court accepted the Trump administration’s argument that lower district courts exceed their authority by issuing nationwide injunctions to check actions of the executive.
While the court took no position on Trump’s executive order itself, which contradicts the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, the Court’s decision essentially opened the way for Trump to enforce the executive order. However, the court did leave very narrow exceptions by allowing judges to issue orders that apply to all individuals belonging to a particular “class”, known a class-action lawsuit.
Shortly after the Supreme Court decision, the American Civil Liberties Union filed such a suit to protect children born to mothers who are undocumented or have temporary residency. Today, New Hampshire-based US District Judge Joseph Laplante sided with the ACLU and their plaintiffs. Laplante again issued a nationwide injunction barring the enforcement of Trump’s executive order. However, the class Laplante included in the action was narrower than the ACLU had sought. Laplante restricted his application of class-action status to infants born on or after February 20, 2025 (the day Trump issued his executive order). The ACLU had sought to include parents of children born in the US in the class-action group as well.
What happens next is not clear. Laplante has given the Trump administration 7 days to appeal.
Israel kills 82 in Gaza while pursuing “peace” plan in Washington
Even as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in Washington discussing a potential Hamas ceasefire deal with President Trump, Israel’s military continues carrying out daily massacres in the Gaza Strip. Today, supposedly while targeting a Hamas militant in the area, Israel carried out an airstrike on people who were waiting for nutritional supplements at a hospital. Among the dead were 10 children and 4 women. In total, Israel’s military killed at least 82 people across the Strip on Thursday.
While the US and Israel claim they are close to a ceasefire deal with Hamas with only one or two issues outstanding, Hamas insists that is not the case. As in every round of negotiations since Oct. 2023, Hamas has sought a permanent end to the war, which Israel has repeatedly refused to commit to.
This time, Israel is seeking the release of 10 live hostages, but insisting that a ceasefire will only last 60 days. Hamas is seeking guarantees from the US and other mediators that a ceasefire would continue for as long as negotiations are ongoing. However, there is little goodwill remaining between the US and Hamas, despite the Trump administration previously engaging in direct negotiations with Hamas, a move which angered the Israelis.
The Trump administration had previously offered assurances to Hamas regarding humanitarian aid entering the Gaza Strip. As part of these negotiations, Hamas released Edan Alexander, the only still-living American-Israel hostage has a show of good faith. However, they received little in return.
If Trump is serious about getting a peace deal, analysts say that he must pressure Netanyahu, something he has so far been unwilling to do.
Buying time for a crime against humanity
From Israel’s side, these negotiations and temporary ceasefire buy them time to implement a larger plan for ethnic cleansing of the Gaza Strip. Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz has issued a directive to set up concentration camps in the south of Gaza to house the entirety of Gaza’s population in preparation for their eventual deportation abroad (to an as yet unknown third country). The way would then be clear for Israeli settlements to be built on Palestinian land (as is the case in the West Bank), a goal some in Netanyahu’s coalition have long pushed for.
Netanyahu insists that they are simply giving the Palestinians and Gaza “freedom of choice” to stay in Gaza or to leave and live as refugees in a third country. In reality, the choice the Palestinians are being presented with echoes a 2023 statement by prominent Israeli security advisor Giora Eiland: “The people [of Gaza] should be told that they have two choices; to stay and to starve, or to leave”.
In it the case South Africa brought against Israel (page 74) at the International Court of Justice last year, South Africa cited Eiland’s statement as a declaration of genocidal intent.
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