Citizenship Blog Entries
· By Rajiv S. Khanna
SCOTUS Ruling on Nationwide Injunctions: What Anxious Parents Need to Know About Birthright Citizenship
To put matters in context, today's 6-3 Supreme Court decision is NOT about whether your US-born children are citizens. Let me be clear about what actually happened.
The Court ruled on a procedural question: whether federal judges can issue nationwide injunctions that block government policies across all 50 states. They said no; such orders should be limited to protecting only the specific parties who sued.