The Daily Fuckup

A federal judge in New Hampshire on July 10, 2025, issued preliminary relief against Donald Trump’s birthright-citizenship order and provisionally certified a class of affected children and future children. U.S. District Judge Joseph Laplante said the plaintiffs had shown enough at this stage to justify class-wide protection while the lawsuit moves ahead.

The order is not a final ruling on the constitutional claims. It is an interim injunction, so the government is barred from enforcing the policy against the certified class while the injunction remains in force or until the court orders otherwise.

That matters because the case is now about more than the named families who brought it. By approving class treatment, Laplante created a vehicle for broader relief as the fight over the policy continues in federal court.

Trump’s order aims to deny citizenship to certain children born in the United States, and it has faced immediate legal attacks. The New Hampshire ruling adds another legal roadblock after the Supreme Court narrowed the use of universal injunctions in a separate June 2025 decision, making class-based relief a more important path for challengers seeking to stop the policy.

For now, the practical result is that the order cannot be enforced against the certified class during the litigation. The court did not decide the underlying merits, and that question remains for later stages of the case.