Blumenthal Statement on Supreme Court Decision on Birthright Citizenship

[WASHINGTON, D.C.] – U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) released the following statement after the Supreme Court put new limits on nationwide injunctions in an opinion on a case challenging President Trump’s Executive Order limiting birthright citizenship:

“This decision leaves families across the country in a state of fear and uncertainty about the future of their children. The Supreme Court has chipped away at two bedrock constitutional principles: the guarantee of birthright citizenship and an American justice system that can serve as an effective check and balance to prevent illegal and unconstitutional actions by the government. The Court’s feckless conservative majority claims that this decision is merely procedural, but that is a lie they tell to absolve themselves of leaving millions of Americans newly vulnerable to government overreach.”

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