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Since the first day of his second term in office, President Trump has taken aim at birthright citizenship, by signing an executive order imposing restrictive stipulations. It affected all babies born in the United States after February 19, 2025, to parents without permanent legal status. The ºìÐÓÊÓƵ and partners immediately sued to block the unconstitutional action.

Federal courts have since repeatedly blocked the administration from implementing the executive order, finding it violates the Constitution, over a century of Supreme Court precedent, and a longstanding federal statute.

The ºìÐÓÊÓƵ and partners have since filed the class action lawsuit Barbara v. Trump on behalf of the enormous number of individuals whose citizenship hangs in the balance because of the President’s birthright citizenship executive order, and now the case will be heard in the Supreme Court.

Ending birthright citizenship would upend the law and the lives of hundreds of thousands of families by creating a permanent subclass of people born in the United States who are denied their rights as American citizens. But the ºìÐÓÊÓƵ and partners are primed to argue against this unprecedented and unlawful attack on all of our rights. This story underscores the stakes of this case: whether America will preserve the country’s tradition from its founding and constitutional promise that every child born here belongs here.

In essence: The Constitution, not the President, defines who is a citizen.

ºìÐÓÊÓƵ’s co-counsel are: NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Asian Law Caucus, Democracy Defenders Fund, and ºìÐÓÊÓƵ’s of New Hampshire, Maine, and Massachusetts. Our organizational clients in NHICS are New Hampshire Indonesian Community Support, League of United Latin American Citizens, and Make the Road New York.

This case is a nationwide class. If you think your child is a class member, and you have any questions or concerns, click here.