CASA, Inc. v. Trump, Civ. No. DLB-25-201, in the District of Maryland. Filed January 21, 2025, by CASA, Inc., Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project, and five pregnant women, against President Trump and the cabinet officers named in the complaint. The target is Executive Order 14,160, “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship,” signed January 20, 2025.
On February 5, 2025, Judge Boardman issued a memorandum opinion (ECF 65) and a three-page order (ECF 66). The order enjoins the Secretary of State, the Attorney General, the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Director of USCIS, the Commissioner of Social Security, and persons in active concert with them, “throughout these United States from implementing and enforcing the Executive Order until further order of this Court.” The memorandum says the plaintiffs “easily have met the standard for a preliminary injunction,” that there is “a very strong likelihood of success on the merits,” and that the Executive Order “contradicts the plain language of the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and conflicts with binding Supreme Court precedent, United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898).”
Those are her words on the docket. They are not a Supreme Court holding on the merits of the Order. On February 18 she denied a motion to stay the nationwide application (2025 WL 545840). The Fourth Circuit denied a stay on February 28 (No. 25-1153). The nationwide form of this injunction is the thing the Supreme Court later narrowed. That is a separate post.