Press Release  AG Campbell Issues Statement on Supreme Court Decision in Trump v. CASA

BOSTON — Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell issued the following statement in response to today’s 6-3 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court in Trump v. CASA, limiting a district court’s authority to issue a nationwide injunction, and instructing the district courts to determine the appropriate scope of relief in the cases defending birthright citizenship in order to redress the harms suffered by the plaintiffs   

 “I am proud to defend birthright citizenship and the rights of those born in the United States, which are guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment. I am confident our case will be successful, and the President’s blatantly unconstitutional executive order will ultimately be struck down. While today’s Supreme Court decision is disappointing and introduces additional procedural hurdles, we look forward to demonstrating why nationwide relief in this case is necessary, as the court has invited us to do. We will once again demonstrate what this country has known to be true since the Civil War: citizenship should not, cannot, and must not depend on the state where a baby was born,” said Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell.    

In January 2025, AG Campbell, alongside the attorneys general from New Jersey and California, co-led a coalition of 17 state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts challenging President Donald Trump’s Executive Order purporting to end the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship. In February 2025, Judge Leo Sorokin granted the coalition states preliminary injunction preventing the President’s Executive Order from taking immediate effect.  

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