Anthony D. Romero

We know his playbook from the first time around. At that time, we filed 434 legal actions against the Trump administration. But we knew the same playbook would not work in Trump 2.0. And so we need to redouble our efforts and rethink it.

So we issued a bunch of public documents, I think seven memos all in, analyzing the Trump campaign's promises on all these different issue areas, abortion, voting rights, immigrants. Free speech. But then we spent a lot of time internally kind of studying, like, how would we operationalize those plans?

So we issued a bunch of public documents, I think seven memos all in, analyzing the Trump campaign's promises on all these different issue areas, abortion, voting rights, immigrants. Free speech. But then we spent a lot of time internally kind of studying, like, how would we operationalize those plans?

So we issued a bunch of public documents, I think seven memos all in, analyzing the Trump campaign's promises on all these different issue areas, abortion, voting rights, immigrants. Free speech. But then we spent a lot of time internally kind of studying, like, how would we operationalize those plans?

And so that's why on the first day when he signed the executive order trying to undo birthright citizenship, we can talk about I think it's trampling on hollowed ground.

And so that's why on the first day when he signed the executive order trying to undo birthright citizenship, we can talk about I think it's trampling on hollowed ground.

And so that's why on the first day when he signed the executive order trying to undo birthright citizenship, we can talk about I think it's trampling on hollowed ground.

right but we were able to file our lawsuit first of any other organization or entity within two hours of him signing that executive order because we had figured out the theories we had figured out where we're going to file we had identified clients pregnant women immigrants in in the jurisdiction we wanted to file whose kids would be born after the executive order would go into effect and whose kids would be stripped of u.s citizenship so we had kind of gamed it all out

right but we were able to file our lawsuit first of any other organization or entity within two hours of him signing that executive order because we had figured out the theories we had figured out where we're going to file we had identified clients pregnant women immigrants in in the jurisdiction we wanted to file whose kids would be born after the executive order would go into effect and whose kids would be stripped of u.s citizenship so we had kind of gamed it all out

right but we were able to file our lawsuit first of any other organization or entity within two hours of him signing that executive order because we had figured out the theories we had figured out where we're going to file we had identified clients pregnant women immigrants in in the jurisdiction we wanted to file whose kids would be born after the executive order would go into effect and whose kids would be stripped of u.s citizenship so we had kind of gamed it all out

And then so when we saw that the executive order was coming down the pike, we were ready to hit play. And that's been our playbook all throughout. I mean, even with the Alien Enemies Act, we had kind of mapped out a bunch of those issues.

And then so when we saw that the executive order was coming down the pike, we were ready to hit play. And that's been our playbook all throughout. I mean, even with the Alien Enemies Act, we had kind of mapped out a bunch of those issues.

And then so when we saw that the executive order was coming down the pike, we were ready to hit play. And that's been our playbook all throughout. I mean, even with the Alien Enemies Act, we had kind of mapped out a bunch of those issues.

Now, some of this we're having to make up in real time because the facts are changing, the circumstances are changing, the rulings from the Supreme Court or the district courts requires to be nimble and to change our strategy as it evolves. But the level of, there were literally thousands of ACLU staff hours spent on a Trump strategy even before the election.

Now, some of this we're having to make up in real time because the facts are changing, the circumstances are changing, the rulings from the Supreme Court or the district courts requires to be nimble and to change our strategy as it evolves. But the level of, there were literally thousands of ACLU staff hours spent on a Trump strategy even before the election.

Now, some of this we're having to make up in real time because the facts are changing, the circumstances are changing, the rulings from the Supreme Court or the district courts requires to be nimble and to change our strategy as it evolves. But the level of, there were literally thousands of ACLU staff hours spent on a Trump strategy even before the election.

And then after he became president, we had to get even doubly more ready.

And then after he became president, we had to get even doubly more ready.

And then after he became president, we had to get even doubly more ready.

Yeah, we were surprised. So this one is not our case. This is a series of other cases brought by state attorneys general. And so it's more on the procedural matter around birthright citizenship, about whether or not they have standing to bring this case and whether or not a federal judge should be able to grant a nationwide injunction across the whole country.