Trump lawyer says no immediate deportations under birthright citizenship order, as judges to decide on challenges

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Source: Reuters

June 30, 2025 5:42 PM EDT Updated 11 hours ago


June 30 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's administration will not deport children deemed ineligible for U.S. citizenship until his executive order curtailing birthright citizenship takes effect on July 27, a government lawyer said on Monday after being pressed by two federal judges.

During separate hearings in lawsuits challenging Trump's order, U.S. District Judges Deborah Boardman in Greenbelt, Maryland, and Joseph LaPlante in Concord, New Hampshire, set expedited schedules to decide whether the order can be blocked again on grounds that the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on Friday curbing the ability of judges to impede his policies nationwide does not preclude injunctions in class action lawsuits.

Both judges asked U.S. Department of Justice lawyer Brad Rosenberg, who represented the government in both cases, for assurances that the Trump administration would not move to deport children who do not have at least one parent who is a U.S. citizen or legal permanent resident at least until the executive order takes effect. Rosenberg said it would not, which Boardman and LaPlante respectively asked him to confirm in writing by Tuesday and Wednesday.

In the Maryland case, immigrant rights advocates revised their lawsuit just a few hours after the 6-3 conservative majority U.S. Supreme Court on Friday ruled in their case and two others challenging Trump's executive order. The New Hampshire lawsuit, a proposed class action, was filed on Friday. The Supreme Court ruling did not address the merits or legality of Trump's birthright citizenship order, but instead curbed the ability of judges to issue "universal" injunctions to block the Republican president's policies nationwide.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/trump-lawyer-says-no-immediate-deportations-under-birthright-citizenship-order-2025-06-30/

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1. How is it possible for an EO to override the Constitution?

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2. The actual E.O. content itself hasn't made it up to the SCOTUS yet

only the "mechanism" for halting it. It's like the maddening splitting of hairs.

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3. It can't.

But it's all about interpretation of the amendment, not overriding it. Trump's contention is that his interpretation is the correct one - that immigrants who haven't gone through the correct process aren't under the jurisdiction of the US. It is a ludicrous argument, because if they aren't under the jurisdiction of the US we couldn't jail then, deport them, etc.

Ultimately, it is the courts job to determine what that phrase (and any other constitutional provision) means.