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A federal judge blocked Trumps Jan. 20 executive order ending birthright citizenship Thursday. By allowing the case to proceed as a class action lawsuit, the block gets around a 6-3 Supreme Court decision last month that limited judges abilities to issue nationwide injunctions on Trump administration policies. The lawsuit, filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, seeks to protect the class of babies born to temporary residents or unlawful permanent residents since Feb. 20. These children wouldunlike generations of children born in similar situationsbe deprived of citizenship under Trumps order, titled Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship, which reinterprets the text of the Fourteenth Amendment. The framers of the Fourteenth Amendment specifically enshrined this principle in our Constitutions text to ensure that no onenot even the Presidentcould deny children born in America their rightful place as citizens, according to the complaint filed late last month. Joseph N. Laplante, a U.S. District Court Judge based in New Hampshire wrote in his ruling that members of the class impacted by the end of birthright citizenship are likely to suffer irreparable harm if the executive order is not blocked. By allowing the lawsuit to continue as a class actiona type of civil lawsuit filed on behalf of a large group of similarly-situated people who have been similarly harmedLaplantes ruling uses the only remaining workaround to stop policies deemed unlawful from being implemented nationwide. Before the Supreme Court ruled against the practice last month, judges were able to issue universal, or nationwide injunctions against such policies. The Trump administration has 7 days to appeal Laplantes ruling, and White House officials say they are planning to fight back against the injunction, accusing the judge of “abusing class action certification procedures.” Todays decision is an obvious and unlawful attempt to circumvent the Supreme Courts clear order against universal relief,” Harrison Fields, principal deputy press secretary and special assistant to President Trump, tells Fast Company. “The Trump Administration will be fighting vigorously against the attempts of these rogue district court judges to impede the policies President Trump was elected to implement. For immigration rights activists, however, the ruling is a major triumph for the children who would be born stateless if not for birthright citizenshipan estimated 255,000 annually, according to the Migration Policy Institute. This ruling is a huge victory and will help protect the citizenship of all children born in the United States, as the Constitution intended, Cody Wofsy, deputy director of the ACLUs Immigrants Rights Project, said in a statement. We are fighting to ensure President Trump doesnt trample on the citizenship rights of one single child.
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TikTok is facing a fresh European Union privacy investigation into user data sent to China, regulators said Thursday. The Data Protection Commission opened the inquiry as a follow-up to a previous investigation that ended earlier this year with a 530 million euro ($620 million) fine after it found the video-sharing app put users at risk of spying by allowing remote access to their data from China. The Irish national watchdog serves as TikToks lead data privacy regulator in the 27-nation EU because the companys European headquarters is based in Dublin. During an earlier investigation, TikTok initially told the regulator it didnt store European user data in China, and that data was only accessed remotely by staff in China. However, it later backtracked and said that some data had in fact been stored on Chinese servers. The watchdog responded at the time by saying it would consider further regulatory action. As a result of that consideration, the DPC has now decided to open this new inquiry into TikTok, the watchdog said. The purpose of the inquiry is to determine whether TikTok has complied with its relevant obligations under the GDPR in the context of the transfers now at issue, including the lawfulness of the transfers, the regulator said, referring to the European Unions strict privacy rules, known as the General Data Protection Regulation. TikTok, which is owned by Chinas ByteDance, has been under scrutiny in Europe over how it handles personal user information amid concerns from Western officials that it poses a security risk. TikTok noted that it was the one that notified the Data Protection Commission, after it embarked on a data localization project called Project Clover that involved building three data centers in Europe to ease security concerns. Our teams proactively discovered this issue through the comprehensive monitoring TikTok implemented under Project Clover,” the company said in a statement. “We promptly deleted this minimal amount of data from the servers and informed the DPC. Our proactive report to the DPC underscores our commitment to transparency and data security. Under GDPR, European user data can only be transferred outside of the bloc if there are safeguards in place to ensure the same level of protection. Only 15 countries or territories are deemed to have the same data privacy standard as the EU, but China is not one of them. By Kelvin Chan, AP business writer
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Tesla has scheduled an annual shareholders meeting for November, one day after the electric vehicle company came under pressure from major shareholders to do so. Billionaire Elon Musk‘s company said in a regulatory filing on Thursday that the meeting will be held on Nov. 6. A group of more than 20 Tesla shareholders said in a letter to the company a day earlier that it needed to provide public notice of the annual meeting. Texas law states businesses must hold annual meetings within 13 months of their last one, if shareholders request it. But the law also allows for written consent instead of the annual meeting to be executed within the 13-month timeframe. Tesla is incorporated in Texas. The annual meeting, given Tesla’s fortunes this year, has the potential to be a raucous event and it is unclear how investors will react to the delay, which is rare for any major U.S. corporation. Tesla shares have plunged 27% this year, largely due to blowback over Musk’s affiliation with President Donald Trump, as well as rising competition. Many shareholders have been miffed by Musk’s participation in the Trump administration this year, saying he needs to focus on his EV company which is facing extraordinary pressures. An annual meeting provides shareholders with the opportunity to hear directly from the board about these concerns, and to vote for or against directors, the boards approach to executive compensation, and other matters of material importance, the group said in the letter. Teslas last shareholders meeting was on June 13 of last year, where investors voted to restore Musks record $44.9 billion pay package that was thrown out by a Delaware judge earlier that year. Tesla also said in its regulatory filing on Thursday that July 31 is the new deadline for the submission of proposals to be included in the proxy statement. In a January filing, Tesla said it would file its proxy statement for this year’s annual meeting by the end of April. However, the company filed an amended report on April 30, saying that it didn’t have a date for the meeting yet. Tesla also said in that filing that it was creating a special committee to look at Musk’s compensation as CEO. Also on Thursday, Musk said that the Grok chatbot will be heading to Tesla vehicles. Grok is coming to Tesla vehicles very soon. Next week at the latest, Musk said on social media platform X, in response to a post stating that Grok implementation on Teslas wasn’t announced on a Grok livestream Wednesday. Grok was developed by Musks artificial intelligence company xAI and pitched as an alternative to woke AI interactions from rival chatbots like Googles Gemini, or OpenAIs ChatGPT. Yet Grok has had a bumpy ride during its rollout. On Wednesday xAI announced that it was taking down inappropriate posts made by its Grok chatbot, which appeared to include antisemitic comments that praised Adolf Hitler. Shares of Tesla rose more than 3% in Thursday morning trading after tumbling this week as the feud between Trump and Musk heated up again. Michelle Chapman, AP business writer
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