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Joseph N. Laplante

Joseph N. Laplante

U.S. District Judge, District of New Hampshire

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In earlier related litigation, Laplante concluded the order likely "contradicts the text of the Fourteenth Amendment and the century‑old untouched precedent that interprets it," according to summaries of his reasoning.([axios.com](https://www.axios.com/2025/12/05/birthright-citizenship-supreme-court-trump-14th))

Stories

Trump’s birthright citizenship order heads to the Supreme Court

Rule Changes

Issued classwide injunction against EO 14160 in Barbara v. Trump

On January 20, 2025, the first day of his second term, President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 14160, "Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship." The order denies automatic citizenship to U.S.-born children when the mother is unlawfully present or on a temporary visa and the father is neither a citizen nor a lawful permanent resident. It challenges 125 years of legal consensus (grounded in the 14th Amendment and the Supreme Court's 1898 decision in United States v. Wong Kim Ark) that nearly all children born on U.S. soil are automatically citizens.

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