Attorney General Phil Weiser statement on SCOTUS opinion limiting nationwide injunctions in federal cases

June 27, 2025 (DENVER) – Attorney General Phil Weiser today released the following statement regarding the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v. CASA, Inc., limiting nationwide injunctions in court cases:

“Birthright citizenship has been a fundamental constitutional right for over one hundred years. Time and again, the Supreme Court has reaffirmed the basic right that if you are born here, you are an American, regardless of a parent’s immigration status.

“While the court did not rule on the birthright citizenship issue today, its decision to limit courts from issuing nationwide injunctions will spread chaos and create an unworkable patchwork of conflicting decisions in the judicial system. It is critical, for example, to have uniformity when it comes to citizenship – whether a child is a citizen should not depend on the state where they’re born.

“We’ll keep fighting in the lower court to defend the 14th Amendment and the citizenship of those born in Colorado. The new limits on universal injunctions will not stop us from challenging the president or his administration when they overstep their authority and take illegal and dangerous actions that harm Coloradans.”

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