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Today, Congressional Black Caucus Chair Yvette D. Clarke (NY-09) and members of the Congressional Black Caucus issued the following statement:

“By limiting the federal judiciary's ability to issue nationwide injunctions against the Trump Administration's extremist and authoritarian policies, the conservative supermajority on the Supreme Court is once again bending the law to serve President Trump instead of defending the Constitution and the American people. While this ruling makes it harder for courts to fully block the unlawful policies of the Trump Administration, the judicial fight to protect birthright citizenship and our fundamental rights will continue. 

“For more than a century, a cornerstone of our law is that those born on U.S. soil are American citizens. President Trump’s unlawful attempts to nullify birthright citizenship is in clear violation of the Fourteenth Amendment, which established African Americans as equal citizens under the law. President Trump has absolutely no authority to unilaterally write American citizens out of the Constitution, and any challenge to that notion is utterly fanciful.”