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Challenged

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9/10/25

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This order seeks to severely narrow government protections and support for transgender, intersex, and nonbinary individuals.

Relying on false claims that attempt to divide communities, this order claims to change the policy of the United States to recognize only two genders (male and female), and attempts to redefine those and other terms throughout federal law to comport with this harmful worldview. It also orders the Attorney General to issue guidance to circumvent Supreme Court case law that supports transgender protections and orders several agencies to investigate people deemed to have prevented others from expressing the administration's dangerous views. This order squarely targets transgender, intersex, and nonbinary people for discrimination.

This order threatens providers of gender-affirming healthcare with loss of federal research and education grant funds, and potential enforcement of unrelated criminal laws.

This order is a full-throated attack on the ability of transgender youth to access gender-affirming medical care, even when their parents and doctors agree that such care is in their best interest, and even though similar procedures are allowed for cisgender individuals. The order directs the federal government to take immediate steps to ensure that any institution receiving federal research or education grants does not provide puberty blockers, hormone replacement therapy, or gender-affirming surgery to anyone under the age of 19 (including 18-year-olds, who are legally adults). It also directs agencies to rescind guidance based on the WPATH Standards of Care, the leading medical authority on gender-affirming healthcare standards. It directs the Attorney General to weaponize the enforcement of unrelated laws, like those prohibiting consumer fraud and female genital mutilation, against the provision of gender-affirming healthcare. The order also contains numerous instructions for other federal agencies to roll out over time.

Temporarily Blocked

Updated:

9/10/25

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This order directs federal departments and agencies not to issue or accept citizenship-affirming documents for babies without at least one citizen or LPR parent.

This claims to end Birthright Citizenship by directing the U.S. government to withhold the issuance of documents and to refuse to accept state, local, or other documents recognizing the U.S. citizenship of babies born after Feb. 20, 2025 who do not have at least one citizen or Legal Permanent Resident (LPR, greencard-holder) parent. This order violates the Constitution and Supreme Court precedent, which held that all babies born in the United States are citizens, whether their parents are authorized to be here or even eligible for citizenship at all. This order also differentiates between the citizenship status of a child's mother and father and makes no provisions for babies born to unknown fathers.

Challenged

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9/10/25

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This omnibus order covers various aspects of interior immigration enforcement, including criminal prosecutions, expanded enforcement, and threats to sanctuary jurisdictions.

This is an expansive, omnibus-style executive order focused on interior immigration enforcement, and touches on a number of discrete policy issues. First, it revokes the Biden administration's priorities memo, so the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will not focus its resources on people with criminal convictions or people who pose threats to national security. In addition, this order directs the Department of Justice to prioritize prosecuting immigrants for unlawful entry and reentry — which already consumes significant resources for Assistant United States Attorneys along the U.S.-Mexico border. The order directs DHS to expand expedited removal (a fast-track deportation scheme) to its maximum extent, increase fine collection from noncitizens here without authorization, try to expand detention, and re-establish an office focused on crimes committed by noncitizens that existed in Trump's first term. DHS and DOJ are directed to establish a Task Force in each state, and prosecute noncitizens who don't register with the government (which would apply to all undocumented people). The order directs DHS to freeze funding to organizations that serve migrants until an audit is complete, cancel contracts, and even try to take back funds if the organizations don't pass the audit. On the issue of "sanctuary" jurisdictions, this order tells the Attorney General and DHS Secretary to deny them funding to the extent the law allows (which is contested), and tells DHS to issue guidance on existing law. DHS is instructed to expand 287(g) agreements, which allow state and local law enforcement organizations to enforce certain immigration laws in specific circumstances. The order also hints that a type of 287(g) agreement that allows local police and sheriffs to enforce immigration law in the community, while carrying out their law enforcement duties, could be revived after many years. The order directs the State Department, DOJ, and DHS to take a hard look at Temporary Protected Status and work permits, but doesn't rescind them. State and DHS are directed to pressure recalcitrant countries to take their citizens back when the U.S. wants to deport them.

Withdrawn

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9/10/25

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This memo indefinitely and illegally pauses billions or more in congressionally approved funding that supports people and communities in every state in America.

This harmful and illegal memo from the temporary head of the Office of Management and Budget puts an indefinite pause on billions, possibly more, in congressionally approved funding that supports people in every state in the country. This could pause research on cures for childhood cancer, halt housing and food assistance, shutter domestic violence and homeless shelters, close suicide hotlines, block funding for schools, shutter essential services for small businesses like workforce training and childcare programs, and more.

This memo directs U.S. Attorneys to prioritize immigration-related offenses and threatens local officials with prosecution if they do not enforce federal immigration policies.

As an initial matter, by directing Department of Justice (DOJ) officials and federal-state taskforces to prioritize the enforcement of immigration-related offenses with this memo, DOJ is de-prioritizing and undermining the enforcement of many other laws that keep our communities safe. Additionally, this memo tries to compel, under the threat of prosecution, state and local officials to enforce federal immigration law. Such coercion undermines the ability of local and state law enforcement to prioritize what they need to in order to keep their communities safe. Taken as a whole, this DOJ memo reads as an attempt to threaten, if not prohibit, cities across America from providing sanctuary to those in this country seeking refuge.