Birthright citizenship and the Supreme Court decision June 27, 2025 Updated 6/29/2025

Birthright citizenship and the Supreme Court decision June 27, 2025

Update: 6/29/2025 Both the ACLU and CASA filed nationwide class action suits 6/28/2026  https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/groups-file-nationwide-class-action-lawsuit-over-trump-birthright-citizenship-order

Upate:  7 14 2025 The issue of undocumented migrants' rights has certainly risen in the context of the discussion of the 14th Amendment regarding birthright citizenship and other provisions of that amendment, since the wording clearly states it applies to "persons," not just citizens. That one will soon be in the hands of the Supreme Court, as a lower federal court has just ruled Judge Blocks Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order in Class-Action Challenge - The New York Times

Update: 7/25/2025  Third court blocks Donald Trump birthright citizenship order nationwide after Supreme Court decision

 The near absolute power is being handed step by step to an American president, freed from the fear of being prosecuted for committing a crime, and now given the ability to ignore lower federal  injuncton decisions in the ruling handed down today in birthright citizenship. It is one more gift by the Supreme Court to emasculate the power of the two branches of government, the judicial and legislative branches, designed to check and balance each other and the executive, to bridle government abuse of power, and muzzle the inalienable rights of its citizens using the tools of fear and favor. The branch to which the extra power is given is already an administration dedicated to the unit/ary ability of one branch, the executive branch, which holds the reins of power without challenge, thereby becoming the enabler of an autocracy.

The precedence this decision sets gives Trump powers over other very important cases subject to nationwide injunctions, and most alarming are those concerning voters' rights.  Stay tuned on this one. Trump already has his list. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/28/trump-nationwide-inunctions-supreme-court-ruling/   ...(  such as education and voters' rights?).

Immediately after the Supreme Court handed down its decision, the ACU and CASA, an immigration rights organization, filed class action suits that should force the Supreme Court to rule on the constitutionality of the amendment to uphold birthright citizenship. However, individuals affected still have the ability, if they have the money or help, to sue, and also groups of those affected can also sue in class action suits, as CASA just did.  That this is retroactive appears not to be the situation, and the Supreme Court case concerns children born in the US after February 19, 2025, when Trump signed the blatantly unconstitutional executive order.  It is possible that the Trump regime could block a class action suit reaching the Supreme Court through a legal maneuver.   7/2  Third lower federal court has just blocked Trump's edict,, as class action suits wend their way to the Supreme Court. Third court blocks Donald Trump birthright citizenship order nationwide after Supreme Court decision

https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/what-does-the-supreme-court-ruling-on-birthright-citizenship-mean/ "Friday’s ruling addressed three lawsuits that were filed against Trump’s executive order seeking to deny birthright citizenship to children born in the U.S. to undocumented parents or certain noncitizens on temporary visas. The judges in those lawsuits granted nationwide injunctions against Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order, arguing that it violated the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment. Nationwide injunctions have been granted against Republican and Democratic policies alike. But SCOTUS ruled that, in most cases, district court judges cannot issue nationwide injunctions to block federal policies. They can only grant relief to the individuals or groups who brought a particular lawsuit.  This could mean that courts would be forced to allow harmful or unconstitutional policies to take effect in some places or against some individuals while being blocked in others—creating a chaotic and confusing patchwork of rules."

 From an AI inquiry on Google about the CASA class action suit filed June 27:

• "CASA and other groups, who had previously obtained a nationwide injunction against the order, are now seeking class-action relief to protect the rights of a broader group of individuals affected by the order, specifically those who have had or will have children born in the U.S. after February 19, 2025. 
• What the lawsuit challenges:

  The lawsuit challenges the constitutionality of President Trump's executive order, which seeks to limit birthright citizenship, arguing it conflicts with the 14th Amendment's guarantee of citizenship to all persons born in the U.S. 
• Impact:

  The lawsuit aims to ensure that the rights of U.S.-born children of immigrants are protected and that the executive order does not create a patchwork of conflicting rules regarding birthright citizenship across the country. 
• _________________________________________________

Trump is also seeking to denaturalize naturalized citizens

The DOJ’s New Denaturalization Push, Explained

Bingo: a key:word: affordability. Bingo: freedom to pursue life, liberty, and happiness ;messaging again

 I see the 2026 midterms shaping up on two key issues: affordability for everyday life for the non-wealthy and the preservation of democracy. Historian John Meacham put his finger on it: the Declaration of Independence, which states that a government should help its citizens pursue life, liberty, and happiness, and to do so, needs to be free from a tyrannical "king". Credit Rep. Zohran Mamdani, who just won the Democratic party nomination primary for New York mayor, for coining a winning campaign word: affordability. He hit a nerve, and it's his use of it that bested an old generation of pols. Like him or not, he gave those searching for better messaging the winning one word for the 2026 and 2028 election cycles.

 In truth, both the issue of affordability and the protection of democracy are related. Dissent, protest, and freedom of speech are  needed for people to pursue life, liberty, and happiness when government overreaches or ignores their pain..  That is the tie that binds both freedom and the affordability of living for all, not just for the privileged few or  those of a certain race or religion or who swear loyalty to a king. That is the reason we declared independence from a tyrannical king, and the document of the Declaration of Independence remains the best stand-alone reason why democracy should be upheld instead of the dictatorship of one or a few, whether you call it a king, a strongman, or an autocracy. 

The abject failure of Trump to live up to his promise to make life more affordable is a fact of life happening before our very eyes. Protecting democracy as we have known it is more than just an anti-Trump, anti-Trumpism attack campaign strategy; it is a positive sales message on how, going forward, it is an advantage for people themselves to have the freedom, to complain, and to vote in free and fair elections for representative who prioritize their constituents interests. fear from threats of fear or favor..

The near absolute power is being handed step by step to an American president, freed from the fear of being prosecuted for committing a crime, and now given the ability to ignore lower federal court decisions in the ruling handed down today in birthright citizenship. It is one more gift by the Supreme Court to emasculate the power of the two branches of government, the judicial and legislative branches, designed to check and balance each other and the executive, to bridle government abuse of power, and muzzle the inalienable rights of its citizens using the tools of fear and favor. The branch to which the extra power is given is already an administration dedicated to the unitary ability of one branch, the executive branch, which holds the reins of power without challenge, thereby becoming the enabler of an autocracy.

Immediately after the Supreme Court handed down its decision, CASA, an immigration rights organization, filed a class action suit that should force the Supreme Court to rule on the constitutionality of the amendment to uphold birthright citizenship. However, individuals affected still have the ability, if they have the money or help, to sue, and also groups of those affected can also sue in class action suits, as CASA just did.  That this is retroactive appears not to be the situation, and the Supreme Court case concerns children born in the US after February 19, 2025, when Trump signed the blatantly unconstitutional executive order.  It is possible that the Trump regime could block a class action suit reaching the Supreme Court through a legal maneuver. 

https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/what-does-the-supreme-court-ruling-on-birthright-citizenship-mean/ "Friday’s ruling addressed three lawsuits that were filed against Trump’s executive order seeking to deny birthright citizenship to children born in the U.S. to undocumented parents or certain noncitizens on temporary visas. The judges in those lawsuits granted nationwide injunctions against Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order, arguing that it violated the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment. Nationwide injunctions have been granted against Republican and Democratic policies alike. But SCOTUS ruled that, in most cases, district court judges cannot issue nationwide injunctions to block federal policies. They can only grant relief to the individuals or groups who brought a particular lawsuit.  This could mean that courts would be forced to allow harmful or unconstitutional policies to take effect in some places or against some individuals while being blocked in others—creating a chaotic and confusing patchwork of rules."

 From an AI inquiry on Google about the CASA class action suit filed June 27:

• "CASA and other groups, who had previously obtained a nationwide injunction against the order, are now seeking class-action relief to protect the rights of a broader group of individuals affected by the order, specifically those who have had or will have children born in the U.S. after February 19, 2025. 
• What the lawsuit challenges:

  The lawsuit challenges the constitutionality of President Trump's executive order, which seeks to limit birthright citizenship, arguing it conflicts with the 14th Amendment's guarantee of citizenship to all persons born in the U.S. 
• Impact:

  The lawsuit aims to ensure that the rights of U.S.-born children of immigrants are protected and that the executive order does not create a patchwork of conflicting rules regarding birthright citizenship across the country. 

Declaration of Independence: A Transcription | National Archivesn n

MUFTIC FORUM BLOG: Governor Gavin Newsom delivers a bill of particulars against Donald Trump..Links to video/transcript

Why election deniers have reasons to keep up the big lie

The importance of continuing the lie that the 2020 election was stolen is that it has become a political strategy key to Trump's re-election.  No evidence has emerged in nearly four years of trying to find it that would have found enough irregularities to result in Trump being re-elected.  By now, rational thought should have debunked the lie long ago.   Instead, more political leaders still embrace the Big Lie than ever before.  Not all of them are so irrational to ignore the lack of evidence. It has evidently become an important 2024 election tool for Trump supporters. 

The brief tenure of Ronna McDaniels as a political commentator on NBC left me with mixed feelings.  McDaniels, the former chair of the Republican National Committee, had been brought on to the network to give news coverage a more balanced appearance, I assume. Still, it ended in heated and on-camera objections from many NBC and MNBC stars. the network brass reversed itself.  In her first appearance, she refused to back down from being an election denier who contributed to the January 6 violent rioters and Trump's attempted coup to overturn the 2020 election results to turn him from a loser to a winner. I would have looked forward to her defending election denying in the face of challenges from other panel members or moderators. The sign of a true believer is to admit that Biden sits in the White House, so he is now President, but never to admit the 2020 election was legitimate.  McDaniels, now a private citizen, passed the true believer MAGA test in her interview on Meet the Press in March, igniting howls of protest that giving a public platform to promote such lies was unacceptable. She refused to agree the 2020 election was fair and referred to all of the "problems" in the 2020 election. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ronna+mcdaneil+meet+press+first+interview

How can one explain why election denials  have such power even in 2024? It makes no sense unless you view it as a cynical political strategy that benefits Trump and the MAGA movement.

     1. One explanation could be that it has value as a strategy and a tactic to give some sort of rationale to justify a second coup, violent or otherwise.  The 2020 election was stolen, so expect 2024 to be stolen again if Trump loses, goes the pitch. Political violence is already being threatened. The chief election official in Colorado is the Secretary of State, a Democrat, and like other election officials throughout the US, she must have 24-7 security protection because of the threats of violence against them. https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/07/politics/threats-us-public-officials-democracy-invs/index.html

Trump has a long history of supporting violence to accomplish a political goal. Even if you think he is just bluffing and bloviating, then learn how he has promoted violence in the past. It is a big part of who he is Promising to free and forgive violent and convicted January 6 protestors is just the most obvious one, but his inciting violence or advocating it has a record. https://mufticforumblog.blogspot.com/2020/08/trump-fans-flames-of-violence-yet-calls.html

     2. Another explanation could be that it is also a way to identify those who are true MAGA supporters from those who are not, like a secret handshake to get entry into the Trump club or as a hex sign to warn off a political attack by MAGA party disciplinarians of being primaried or publicly humiliated. Fear of loss of power or livelihood in a primary is a powerful motivator.   Trump's threat of revenge and retribution if he is re-elected is his promise often repeated.

    3. There could be another, darker reason for keeping the Big Lie going. It provides motivation and a rationale to enact voter suppression legislation and call it "voter integrity."  If the system is broken, we should fix it, according to pious logic. The problem is there is no evidence the system was that broken to justify unlawful purging of voter records, playing keepaway from convenient ballot drop boxes, and stopping mail in voting. However, suppressing the vote benefits the Trump re-election efforts by weakening his feared opposition.  What the MAGA "fix" is passing laws making it hard for targeted, presumed potential anti-Trump and pro-Biden voters to vote, all in the name of "voter integrity," based on the presumption that the young and the poorer minorities are the ones to commit voter fraud.  The current crusade is to end mail-in balloting (the fraud-free system used in Colorado by most voters). That is both a race-based approach that appeals to the white nationalist element of MAGA and one that does not stand up to evidence of prosecution records. Furthermore, when the MAGA crowd and FOX media lost millions in losing the defamation suit against the vote tabulating systems of Doniniium, they just kept spouting their unproved theories.  If the solution is to use only paper ballots, the answer is to keep mail-in voting and still provide same-day polling places as Colorado does. Paper ballots kept secure are the best proof in an audit that the computer systems upheld the validity of the count in an audit.   https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/5-egregious-voter-suppression-laws-2021

https://www.lwv.org/voting-rights/fighting-voter-suppression

     4. It supports the continuing rule of autocrats, which Trump promotes and what he promises to be. However, know when an autocrat controls the election system, as Trump would like to do with his appointments. there is no faith that there is any election integrity at all. We just witnessed the Russian sham elections recently, which were neither fair nor free, giving Putin his 6th term with 87% of the vote, the same incredible outcome of voting as in the old Communist-controlled USSR.  Putting MAGA in control, like the fox guarding the henhouse, of counting the vote is about the same lack of faith and credibility as it is in Russia. 

5. The Boss requires it. He has honed the technique over many years. Donald Trump has a long history of denying he lost a contest. It was noted when he was the Apprentice star who failed to get the Emmy he thought he deserved. Election denial was again used to explain the rigging that explained Obama's success, which popped up in 2012, and then, in 2020, it set off a bell in an October presidential debate. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/timeline-donald-trumps-election-denial-claims-republican-politicians/story?id=89168408   At first, it was just a comment made during a debate by Donald Trump in  October of 2016 that set off the first alarm bells. .https://www.npr.org/2016/10/20/498713509/donald-trump-says-hell-accept-the-results-of-the-election-if-he-wins    Some watching the debate thought he was just making a joke, but the joke was on us. He was not kidding. Others thought he believed he would lose, so he was preparing his followers to not lose faith; he never lost anything, and he would do something.   And something he did culminating in the January 6 attempted coup.  https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/no-modern-presidential-candidate-refused-to-concede-heres-why-that-matters  

6. The purge is complete.MAGA election deniers have taken over the GOP and many state officials.They got the power and prestige by riding on election denying oratory. The US Speaker of the House is an election denier, and the present and just past RNC (Republican National Committee) chairs are election deniers. Election deniers are in place to administer the 2024 elections in many states.   https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/election-deniers-playbook-2024 

In Colorado, recently mostly blue,   a very conservative and disgusted  Rep. Buck (R)  bailed out of the House before his term was up, leaving the GOP control hanging by a thread. He cited that the lies still promoted by the 2020 election were stolen. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/republican-rep-ken-buck-leaving-congress-eroding-gop-majority-rcna143046 His district is ruby red, so he will likely be his replacement who passes the MAGA loyalty tests. The Colorado state party chair, Dave Let's Go, Brandon Williams, the supreme Colorado election denier, is also running for Congress to fill another announced House vacancy in a red district.  Republican state chair Dave Williams wins top-line in Colorado's 5th Congressional District primary | Elections | coloradopolitics.com   

Buck's replacement was picked to run in the primary. Greg Lopez is an election denier, against abortions with no exceptions, with a history of domestic violence, DUIs, and other run ins with the law. https://coloradosun.com/2024/03/28/greg-lopez-ken-buck-colorado-4th-district-lauren-boebert/

https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/local-politics/candidate-lets-go-brandon-nickname/73-cac3b05d-4d57-4ac6-961c-6d308155e2f6

In my own county, the newly elected County Clerk nearly lost to opponents who suspected she was an election denier who would be running elections. She squeaked by winning her election recently after claiming the retiring loyal and much respected GOP clerk was OK, but the rest of the 2020 election, state and national, was a fraud. Go figure.    

Voting rights bill passes or fails worth the pro-democracy effort

 https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/democrats-want-federal-voting-rights-bill-ahead-of-2024-elections/ar-AA1h0X8J?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=69012a1e703a40c7a69db55645d00952&ei=50

Those of us who feel strongly about protecting our democracy from the MAGA autocracy movement do not have to wait to vote in November 2024 to make our voices heard.  The Democrats have just provided the focus for us to express ourselves now by putting the federal voting rights bill back on the front burner.  One of the tactics used by the MAGAs is to make it as hard as possible for those they ID'd as likely not to vote for them as inconvenient and difficult to cast their ballots.  The premise used by red states is based on the big lie and the debunked claims the 2020 election was stolen.      Even if the legislation has little chance of passing both houses before the November 2024 elections, it will serve to put on the record which incumbents voted against it, and it will give an opportunity to members of both political parties who opposed the MAGA voter suppression efforts dramatize the damage that has been done by red states to the right of people to vote and to have their votes counted.  If a big enough issue is made of the proposed legislation, win or lose, the issue will have focus and exposure.  On the other hand, passage of voting rights legislation  will also scotch any of Supreme Court-dominated conservatives to restrict voting right by their decisions and at least get it in a storm that will be hard to overturn. should somehow the White House falls into Trump's hands in 2024. 

 The most anti-democratic voter suppression efforts are still a storm on the horizon: white nationalist attempts at  destroying birth right citizenship, which means immigrant children cannot be citizens of the US and so they could not vote against white people's race.  Face it. That is what it is about. That will leave this country in the future full of very angry second class citizens, an institutionalized Jim Crow country with all of the conflict and violence such suppression creates.  That is the future this nation would face. That is not the kind of country I hope for my grandchildren who are white. Without racial peace in this country, kiss prosperity goodbye as such turmoil would absorb us instead. 

Why should business interests support Joe Biden

Why should business interests support Joe Biden in 2024? Consider the alternatives: autocracy, instability,  and crony capitalism.

One of the most memorable converations I had shortly after the November 2020 election (and before the "stop the steal" Trump impetus and January 6) was with a businessman who said he had voted for Trump even though he was "an A-hole" because he liked his tax policies, among other government policies toward his business.  He agreed with me that Joe Biden was the only Democrat who could have beaten Trump. There is a case to be made that in the longer run, Biden's win in 2024 would be far more favorable to business interests than Trump and his allies' policies. Peace and domestic stability are bedrocks of a prosperous business climate, and Trump and his allies would guarantee years of conflict and instability in the face of enormous generational and demographic shifts. The Brookings Institute noted " The simple fact is that it is hard (for private businesses) to plan and invest for the future in volatile, unstable circumstances," and Brookings agreed with the need of an accountable, capable government that sets rules of the game fairly which only democracy can insure with accountability. Free trade and keeping access to international markets are public policy plusses, but an unaccountable strong leader may or may not support with diplomacy and military power, depending upon the benefits to him.  Trump and his allies are determined to upend democracy and replace it with an autocracy. Crony capitalism is emerging in autocracies in many parts of the world.  Is democracy failing and putting our economic system at risk? | Brookings

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/09/07/presidential-centers-unite-to-warn-about-danger-to-u-s-democracy/70788967007/

Democracy has kept government power and crony capitalism in check for 250 years. and provided the ability for businesses to thrive and innovate.  The alternative and polar opposite to democracy is autocracy. Autocrats pick business winners and losers with favoritism dependent on loyalty to their political ideology, goals, and world views. Autocrats are fueled by greed for more power and wealth, and criteria for government favors and decisions depend on loyalty to the leader, not to a law to which they give lip service with a wink and a nod.  

  The free market,  innovation,   and competition struggle in such an atmosphere where business decisions depend upon political favoritism granted by one powerful leader, an ideologically based political party. Innovation is stolen from the innovators and then applied in business favored by the reigning powers. China is the template of how that works..   That alliance between loyal businesses and an autocrat is the model personified by Orban of  Hungary and in Russia's Putin and his oligarchs. and China.   That is how autocrats have gained and then maintained power. Crony capitalism works for them.  That is a lesson from history as even the 1930''s fascist rulers rose to power by fostering such alliances with favored businesses, as well..  Once in power, they are nearly impossible to unhide because the power centers of government are controlled by the economic self-interest of the loyalists.  

The chaos factor and instability:  The use of violence to accomplish such MAGA goals has not been denied, and Trump himself has a history of approving such tactics, including weaponizing active military and replacing the Department of Justice with yes people.    Trump is a front man of a very strong movement behind him and goals shaped by "think tanks" such as the  Heritage Foundation and an Orban-boosting CPAC.. It is also the elements of white supremacy and Christian nationalism that form part of his and the MAGA support that guarantees future domestic and internal conflicts as opposition grows. Instability and uncertainty are enemies of business. MUFTIC FORUM BLOG: How would being anti-woke unify the country? Updated 9 5 23

Accountability to keep corruption in check. Regulation by the government of business practices that support a level, fair playing field needed for a thriving, competitive business climate is possible in a functioning democracy.  Such accountability requires a free press, nosy reporters, and whistle-blowers. In an autocracy, a strong leader fears them and will attempt to suppress the opposition press at best by starving their advertising dollars. buying them out (Orban) and, at worst, poisoning and staging their murders. (Putin).   In crony capitalism empowered by a government having replaced civil service, law enforcement, and the judiciary with their loyal appointees,  favoritism toward loyal businesses and corruption, bribery, grift,  and graft, flourish. The public remains in the dark, with few who see the corruption daring to be outraged. because of the repercussions. (Navalny, one of the most extreme examples of Putin's policies.) Legislators fear being primaried or losing power, and voters are left with few or no choices.

Isolationism:  In a  second term, we expect Trump to continue with his attempt to destroy international alliances such as NATO and withdraw into isolationism. In addition, he would install high tariffs, the opposite of a long-held conservative value of free trade. Many of our US businesses are global.  Many depend on access to markets to conduct their business to sell and grow abroad.  Biden's foreign and military policy is particularly geared to maintaining trade and supply lanes as a check on Chinese efforts to control them in southeast Asia.

 Instead of punishing with high tariffs, Biden is emphasizing making critical industries competitive and benefitting from "buy America.. make it in America" government policies. He has given positive reinforcement of green energy manufacturing(Chips ac, green energy plan) while beating Trump's oil drilling records and moving us to energy independence to a level not seen in the past 70 year,.The US has become a net exporter of crude oi and natural gas via liquified natural gas (LNG).  Biden is a realist. He recognizes fossil fuels are a current and national security necessity.  Biden has little ability to control prices at the pump, though he gets blamed for price increases. That debt, deficit and inflation are worrisome to the business community, the problem is bi-partisan and the reasons are complicated. None the less, Biden can boast the US is the strongest economy in the world:7 Reasons the U.S. Economy Is Among the Strongest in the G7 - Center for American Progress

US Debt by President: Dollar and Percentage (thebalancemoney.com)  

Yes, inflation is down. No, the Inflation Reduction Act doesn't deserve the credit | AP News  

Many realize, too, that our economy is interdependent with Europe and that Russia is intent on reconstituting the power of the former USSR and control of former satellites. That is the stated goal of Putin..MUFTIC FORUM BLOG: What is wrong with "America First" and isolationism? It depends; updated 9/9/23

Trump Says He'll Impose Huge New Tariffs If Elected in 2024 (businessinsider.com)

Conservative groups draw up plan to dismantle U.S. government - Los Angeles Times (latimes.com) 

NPR

https://www.npr.org › 2022/08/04 › why-hungarys-auth...

The CHIPS and Science Act: What is it and what is in it? | McKinsey

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier/2020/09/06/the-highlights-of-joe-bidens-energy-plan/?

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Under Biden, US oil production is poised to break Trump-era records | CNN Business

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier/2023/05/02/us-energy-independence-soars-to-highest-levels-in-over-70-years/?sh=53ce0eea977f

EIA: US to remain net exporter of petroleum products through 2050 | Oil & Gas Journal (ogj.com)

Natural gas imports and exports - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)

https://www.convenience.org/Media/conveniencecorner/Does-the-President-Control-Gas-Prices

That debt, deficit and inflation are worrisome to the business community, the problem is bi-partisan and the reasons are complicated. None the less, the US is the strongest economy in the world:7 Reasons the U.S. Economy Is Among the Strongest in the G7 - Center for American Progress

US Debt by President: Dollar and Percentage (thebalancemoney.com)  

Yes, inflation is down. No, the Inflation Reduction Act doesn't deserve the credit | AP News