Rep. Chu Statement on Supreme Court’s Decision in Trump v. CASA

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Supreme Court’s decision paves the way for even more authoritarianism from this administration. It greenlights Trump’s attacks on our constitutional rights by limiting the nationwide injunctions that so many courts successfully sued for to block his plainly unconstitutional executive order to end birthright citizenship. Today’s ruling importantly gives lower courts time to respond, and we will keep fighting. Because if Donald Trump succeeds, the victims of his cruel agenda will be babies who will be made stateless, not the “criminals” he lies about going after. Unfortunately, and in the words of Justice Sotomayor, this decision represents the Court’s increasingly reckless pattern of bowing to the President and making a “solemn mockery” of our most precious constitutional rights. We will not stand for it.