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We celebrated when the Supreme Court sent President Trump’s birthright citizenship revocation back to a lower court for deliberate. Now, the executive order is once again being held up by legal trouble. Let’s pray!

Declaring a class-action lawsuit, a federal judge issued a nationwide block of President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship after the U.S. Supreme Court limited lower courts’ ability to issue universal injunctions against the order.

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U.S. District Judge Joseph N. Laplante of the District of New Hampshire, a George W. Bush appointee, issued an order Thursday granting provisional class certification for the plaintiffs.

Laplante concluded that the plaintiffs have demonstrated that they adequately represent a broader scope of people in the United States, specifically those who are the children of noncitizens residing in the U.S., regardless of their legal status.

The Trump administration has “acted on grounds generally applicable to the class in its entirety, thereby making appropriate final injunctive and declaratory relief for all class members,” the judge wrote.

“In light of the above, this court grants the petitioners’ motion and provisionally certifies the following class for the purpose of preliminary injunctive relief,” he added.

Laplante stayed his order for seven days, pending an appeal from the Trump administration.

In January, Trump issued an executive order removing automatic citizenship to children born to undocumented immigrants in the U.S., with the order slated to take effect on Feb. 20.

Although the 14th Amendment says, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside,” the order asserts that the language was never meant “to extend citizenship universally to everyone born within the United States.”

“The Fourteenth Amendment has always excluded from birthright citizenship persons who were born in the United States but not ‘subject to the jurisdiction thereof,'” Trump’s order stated.

Trump barred the government from issuing “documents recognizing United States citizenship” for newborns whose “mother was unlawfully present in the United States and the person’s father was not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of said person’s birth, or … when that person’s mother’s presence in the United States was lawful but temporary, and the person’s father was not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of said person’s birth.”

Trump’s order soon faced multiple lawsuits, including one filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and other progressive advocacy organizations.

After multiple courts issued nationwide injunctions against the executive order, the administration appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court to limit the scope of the blocks.

Last month, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in the case of Trump, et al. v. CASA, Inc., et al. that district courts could not issue nationwide injunctions except for limited circumstances, like class-action lawsuits.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett delivered the opinion of the court, which did not address the merits of whether the Trump order is unconstitutional. Instead, it focused on the government’s request to limit the injunctions to the named plaintiffs in the lawsuits.

Barrett described nationwide injunctions as “more recent development” that “likely exceed the equitable authority that Congress has granted to federal courts,” adding that courts have “consistently rebuffed requests for relief that extended beyond the parties.”

“The universal injunction was conspicuously nonexistent for most of our Nation’s history. Its absence from 18th and 19th century equity practice settles the question of judicial authority,” she wrote.

How are you praying into this legal battle? Share your prayers and scriptures below.

This article was originally published at The Christian Post. Photo Credit: Official White House Photo by Molly Riley.

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Sue Tracy
July 26, 2025

Lord we ask for protection for President Trump and his administration as they strive for equality for all; the unborn, the orphans, the homeless, the mentally challenged, the desperate all persons who are suffering and living life under struggling circumstances; we are all Your children and we desperately need Your help and assistance. Thank you for choosing President Trump for such a desperate time as this, continue to use him for Your purposes and for the good of all Americans. Amen

Susan
July 15, 2025

Father, you are the creator of all borders in this world. You created Israel much larger than it is today. As Derek Prince has stated, you will judge those who divided Israel’s borders: Joel CH 3 – 1-2
When the Lord brings back the Jewish captives from all Nations to Judah and Jerusalem, those scattered among the Nations, more from 100 Nations in the last 50-60 years, are re-gathering to their homeland. V2 – He will judge those Nations according to how they treated the Jews. AND how they divided up HIS Land, the land of Israel. First and foremost, it is God’s land, and it belongs to the Jewish People because God gave it to them – an everlasting covenant. It doesn’t matter who is in it, God gave it to the Jews, and it belongs to them. Period. God is not restoring them because they deserve it, He’s restoring them for His Holy Name Sake.
Your also created America for Your purposes and guided the 14th Amendment by your own hand, as You worked through our Founding Fathers for our Founding Documents.

Darlene Estlow
July 14, 2025

Father, I thank you for your love of all people. I thank you that we as a nation have borders and we can protect those borders. I pray for wisdom for the Supreme Court as this goes back to them. May they clarify things so there can be no misunderstanding.

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NONE OF HUMAN ICT RIGHTS AND HOLY SPIRIT BREACHING BEE'S WAX!
July 14, 2025

John 3:16… “For God so loved the WORLD… ”

Translated: EVERY CULTURE!… AND NOT JUST WHITE USA!

    Darlene Estlow
    July 14, 2025

    I’m afraid I don’t understand your heading. God does love the world (and I am glad he does) but he also instituted borders which means nations have rights. And not all the USA is white! But it is the USA and has borders which we need to respect.

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    Susan
    July 15, 2025

    You are confusing Citizenship with Salvation. Jesus died to save those in the world who believe in Him.

Michele Carlzen
July 14, 2025

Father, Jesus, Holy Spirit, You are El Olam, Eternal God: There is no other! May Your Will be done in the USA! Please and thank You for fulfilling Your Word that ALL WILL BE EXPOSED, ALL WILL BE MADE KNOWN, ALL WILL BE REVEALED, from Luke 8:17, 12:2-3; Jeremiah 11:18; Daniel 2:22; Mark 4:22; 1 Corinthians 4:5; and Matthew 10:26. Thank You for showing the people of the USA exactly which organizations are behind this situation of saying anyone can be a citizen of the USA whenever and however they so choose, as they see fit. Thank You for instilling Your Will into the USA’S Laws instead! In Jesus’s Christ’s Name, Amen!

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