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Trump to begin enforcing birthright citizenship order

Trump administration lawyers told a federal judge Tuesday that they could begin enforcing President Donald Trump's executive order ending birthright citizenship before the end of July — moving quickly to enforce the controversial order just days after a landmark Supreme Court ruling.

Lawyers for the administration told U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman that they would not enforce Trump's executive order before July 27, in recognition of a 30-day stay ordered by the Supreme Court in its ruling last week.

"The Court’s stay thus allows Defendants to immediately begin to 'develop and issu[e] public guidance about the executive’s plans to implement the executive order," Justice Department attorney Brad Rosenberg said Tuesday in a court filing ...

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump- ... h-doj-says

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More on that by the Missouri Independent:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/white-house- ... 47312.html

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The article linked below contains little that is original information for this forum. It is a nice summary in one article of "the worst bill in modern American history."

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/20 ... uts-rich/

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US only country facing tourism decline as rump policies will cost $29 billion in visitor revenue

James Liddell
Friday 04 July 2025 17:04 BST

Donald Trump’s policies risks alienating millions of international travelers and could cost the U.S. economy billions of dollars due to a sharp drop in tourism, a damning report says.

Amid the president’s immigration crackdown, travel bans and sweeping global tariffs, the U.S. is expected to be the only one out of 184 countries to see foreign visitor spending fall in 2025, according to the World Travel and Tourism Council.

The study suggests that the U.S. economy is on track to lose $12.5 billion in international spending this year alone – but the actual shortfall might be much greater ...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl ... 82820.html

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^^^The unitary executive theory of government on steroids. Will the court walk this back when and if the Democrats regain the White House?

If not, then we can look forward to a massive turnover in staffing of federal agencies every time a new president (at least from the opposing party) is elected. Continuity in planning and experience will be severely disrupted.

It is a little unclear to me from this report exactly how many positions would be affected. I believe, for example, that this court has already ruled that the Chair of the Federal Reserve cannot be removed in this manner. Another example would be the Supreme Court itself which, I presume, will continue to be protected by the policy of life-time appointments.

Edit: I should also note that Trump's power to appoint loyalists means that he could choose employees who will enforce his edicts, even if they are found to be unconstitutional. Incredibly, the Supreme Court seems to be working itself out of a job or at least recasting their job to simply assisting Trump in carrying out his edicts, no matter how unconstitutional those edicts may be.

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More on that by Reuters:

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigatio ... 025-07-08/

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Class-action Suit Gains Traction to Preserve Birthright Citizenship
By Jeff Brumley
July 11, 2025

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(Baptist News Global ) A federal judge in New Hampshire has granted class-action status to a lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s efforts to end birthright citizenship and also blocked the administration from implementing the plan nationwide.

U.S. District Judge Joseph Laplante issued the order less than two weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled lower court judges may not grant “universal injunctions” in cases challenging Trump’s executive order denying the 14th Amendment guarantee of citizenship to U.S.-born children of noncitizen parents.

However, the ruling left open the possible application of such injunctions in class-action lawsuits representing entire groups of people facing threats to constitutional rights.

Hours after the Supreme Court’s June 27 ruling, the American Civil Liberties Union and several other civil rights organizations introduced Barbara v. Donald J. Trump, a class-action lawsuit representing all the “current and future” children who would be denied citizenship by the administration.

Judges in three separate cases previously issued nationwide injunctions against Trump’s citizenship order instead of limiting the orders to the plaintiffs in each lawsuit — none of which were class-action cases.

Read more here: https://baptistnews.com/article/class- ... zenship/

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HHS carries out mass firings across health agencies after Supreme Court decision

Thousands of employees across US federal health agencies received an email Monday afternoon telling them they were out of a job as of the close of business.

The firings were originally communicated April 1 for most of the included employees, but they’d been delayed as a legal battle played out. That culminated in a US Supreme Court decision July 8 that, the US Department of Health and Human Services said in the email, means the agency “is now permitted to move forward with a portion of its [reduction in force].”

“You are hereby notified that you are officially separated from HHS at the close of business on July 14, 2025,” read Monday’s notice to dismissed HHS employees, according to copies obtained by CNN. “Thank you for your service to the American people.”

“HHS previously announced our plans to transform this department to Make America Healthy Again and we intend to do just that,” HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon said in an email to CNN after the Supreme Court’s ruling last week.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/hhs-carries- ... 25126.html

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Senate Approves Trump's Bid to Cancel Foreign Aid and Public Broadcast Funds

Source: New York Times

July 17, 2025, 2:37 a.m. ET

The Senate early on Thursday morning approved a White House request to claw back $9 billion for foreign aid and public broadcasting, as Republicans bowed to President Trump in an unusual surrender of congressional spending power.

The 51-to-48 vote came over the objections of two Republicans, who argued that their party was ceding Congress’s constitutional control over federal funding. The Republicans who opposed the measure were Senators Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska.

The bulk of the funds targeted — about $8 billion — was for foreign assistance programs. The remaining $1.1 billion was for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds NPR and PBS. The House is expected to give final approval to the package later this week, sending it to Mr. Trump for his signature.

The debate on the measure laid bare a simmering fight over Congress’s power of the purse. Since Mr. Trump began his second term, the White House has moved aggressively and at times unilaterally, primarily through the Department of Government Efficiency, to expand the executive branch’s control over federal spending, a power the Constitution gives to the legislative branch.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/us/p ... n-aid.html

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Ten Ways the GOP Budget Will Make Life Worse for Americans
By Sarah Anderson and Lindsay Koshgarian
July 9, 2025

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(Other Words) The GOP’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” which narrowly passed Congress and was recently signed by President Trump, represents the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich since chattel slavery.

Here are just 10 of the worst things about it.

1. It’s going to kill people…
2. It will be an apocalypse for rural hospitals…
3. It takes food from the mouths of hungry people…
4. It squeezes states on SNAP…
5. It bars lawfully present immigrants from aid…
6. It terrorizes immigrant families…
7. It takes from the poor to give to the rich…
8. Corporations will take the spoils for themselves…
9. It rewards polluters while raising energy costs…
10. It funds war and enriches war profiteers..

Read more here: https://otherwords.org/10-ways-the-gop ... ricans/

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