Newsweek - The Trump administration suffered a major blow on Friday when an appeals court upheld an injunction that blocked the president’s executive order to end birthright citizenship...
On January 20, hours after his second inauguration, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to end birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants and those in the U.S. on a temporary basis. However, a series of court rulings have prevented the order from taking effect.
With Republicans controlling both the White House and Congress, the courts have emerged as one of the main obstacles to the Trump administration’s policies, blocking efforts such as sanctions against International Criminal Court employees and stripping Haitian migrants of legal protection.
On Friday, the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which is in Boston and comprises three judges, upheld a ruling that U.S. District Judge Leo Sorokin made earlier this year.
In February, in response to a case brought by 18 Democratic-led states and the District of Columbia, Sorokin blocked Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship, which has widely been regarded as a constitutional right via the 14th Amendment, with only a few exemptions, since 1898’s United States v. Wong Kim Ark ruling—a case concerning the son of Chinese immigrants.
A series of lower courts have ruled that Trump’s executive order was unconstitutional as it violated the 14th Amendment.
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