Federal judge outwits Supreme Court on birthright citizenship—for now

Cue Jeff Goldblum in “Jurassic Park”: The lower courts … find a way.

U.S. Federal District Judge Joseph Laplante just did what the Supreme Court conservatives told him to do—and they’re likely furious. 

In Barbara v. Trump, one of the cases challenging President Donald Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order, Laplante granted the plaintiffs’ request to provisionally certify a nationwide class and a preliminary injunction blocking the order from applying to everyone in that class.