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Two federal judges in two days reached easy decisions -- blocking Donald Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship.
After a Wednesday hearing in a challenge to Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship,
a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction
— with nationwide effect
— shortly before the end of the day.
U.S. District Judge #Deborah #Boardman,
a Biden appointee,
heard arguments in federal court in Maryland,
issuing an opinion stating that she
“easily” concluded that plaintiffs met the standard for a preliminary injunction.
“The President’s novel interpretation of the Citizenship Clause contradicts the plain language of the Fourteenth Amendment
and conflicts with 125-year-old binding Supreme Court precedent,“
she wrote.
At the turn of the twentieth century, the Supreme Court
in United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898), resolved any debate about the scope of the Citizenship Clause and the meaning of "subject to the jurisdiction thereof." Wong Kim Ark forecloses the President's interpretation of the Citizenship Clause.
https://www.lawdork.com/p/ag-pam-bondi-says-trump-sets-doj?open=false#%C2%A7eo-to-end-birthright-citizenship-blocked-twice
