Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell issued the following statement in response to the 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." – AG Campbell