NJ AG Matt Platkin: We’ll Still Be Able to Get a Universal Injunction After SCOTUS Ruling

BOLDUAN: “A group of 22 Democratic-led states brought the case against the administration, and they now promise to fight on. Two of the attorneys general leading the effort join us now, the Attorney General of New Jersey, Matthew Platkin, and the Attorney General of Colorado, Phil Weiser. Gentlemen, thank you both for being here. Attorney General Platkin, what now?”
PLATKIN: “Well, look, I think it’s important to remember what the Supreme Court did not do on Friday. First, as you noted, they didn’t opine on the merits of birthright citizenship because everyone, for the last 157 years, has understood that babies born on U.S. soil since the Civil War have been treated as citizens. They also, and this is important for states, said very clearly, states still may need nationwide relief if, in fact, the harms that we experience as states, meaning if you’re a state trying to parse through whether a child born for us in Philadelphia is somehow different than a child born in New Jersey for citizenship, and all of the benefits, education, health care that flow from that, the consequences to states are enormous. So, they asked lower courts to consider that question. So, notably, it was a rhetorically very strong opinion, but it actually was quite a middle of the road opinion for what the administration wanted.”
BOLDUAN: “So, do you think you could still get a universal injunction?”
PLATKIN: “I do. I think we will very clearly be able to meet the standard that even this Supreme Court set out for states to meet should we need nationwide relief.”