Trump Birthright Citizenship Order Piling Up Losses in Court
Trump’s executive order would upend more than a century of court precedent around the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which guarantees citizenship for almost anyone born on US soil, regardless of immigration status.
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President Donald Trump’s executive order to end so-called birthright citizenship for babies of undocumented immigrants was blocked indefinitely by a fourth federal judge, handing the administration another legal setback and signaling an uphill constitutional fight.
US District Judge Leo Sorokin in Boston granted a preliminary injunction Thursday, siding with 18 Democratic state attorneys general, the District of Columbia and the city of San Francisco. The ruling puts the executive order on hold until the case is resolved.