BREAKING: US District Judge Joseph Laplante has just BLOCKED Donald Trump from enforcing his birthright citizenship executive order nationwide after granting a class action lawsuit to proceed…

CONCORD, New Hampshire, July 10 (Reuters) – A federal judge on Thursday has again barred President Donald Trump’s administration from enforcing his executive order limiting birthright citizenship across the country after the U.S. Supreme Court restricted the ability of judges to block his policies using nationwide injunctions.

U.S. District Judge Joseph Laplante in Concord, New Hampshire, made the ruling after immigrant rights advocates implored him to grant class action status to a lawsuit they filed seeking to represent any babies whose citizenship status would be threatened by the implementation of Trump’s directive.

Laplante agreed the plaintiffs could proceed as a class, allowing him to issue a fresh judicial order blocking implementation of the Republican president’s policy nationally.
The question of whether to issue an injunction was “not a close call,” he said, noting children could be deprived of U.S. citizenship if Trump’s order took effect.
“That’s irreparable harm, citizenship alone,” he said. “It is the greatest privilege that exists in the world.”

The judge said he would stay his ruling for seven days to allow the Trump administration to appeal and would issue a written decision by the end of the day.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Under the Supreme Court’s decision, Trump’s executive order had been set to take effect on July 27.

The ACLU and others had filed the suit just hours after the Supreme Court on June 27 issued a 6-3 ruling, powered by its conservative majority, that narrowed three nationwide injunctions issued by judges in separate challenges to Trump’s directive. The suit was filed on behalf of non-U.S. citizens living in the United States whose babies might be affected.