Attorney General Marshall Celebrates Supreme Court Halting Universal Injunction Against President Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order

(Montgomery, Ala.) – Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall celebrated the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to stay injunctions against President Trump’s lawful executive order, Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship.

“For years, federal courts have claimed the power to rule over the nation through universal injunctions. Today, the Supreme Court has finally put a stop to this judicial activism, which has abused our constitutional separation of powers for too long,” Attorney General Marshall stated. “President Trump’s lawful order on so-called birthright citizenship should go into effect, but I have no doubt those working to undermine our immigration laws will try new tactics. Rest assured that as our coalition of states celebrates this victory, we will continue to fight for President Trump’s America First agenda.”

The 20-state amicus brief that Attorney General Marshall signed onto in March made the case that President Trump’s executive order is constitutional and reflects the original meaning of the 14th Amendment. The coalition’s brief also cited evidence that up to 250,000 U.S. births per year, “about 7% of all births in the United States, and more than births in any State besides Texas or California—were to illegal immigrants.”