Federal Judge Blocks Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order

The president’s effort to limit birthright citizenship in the US was thwarted on Wednesday by a federal court, who struck down Trump’s plan to repeal a century-old constitutional protection.

An extremely contentious executive order of Trump’s was scheduled to go countrywide on February 19 but will now be unable to be enforced because of the verdict.

Witnesses said that District Judge Deborah Boardman of Maryland said, “The denial of the precious right to citizenship will cause irreparable harm” during the docket.

She went on to say that birthright citizenship is protected by Supreme Court precedent and that Trump’s order “conflicts with the plain language of the 14th Amendment,” according to the Washington Post.

She went on to say that nary a national court had ever supported the president’s perspective. “There will be other courts.”

A federal court in Washington state had already put a 14-day hold on Trump’s executive order’s enforcement in January, and this injunction extends that delay.

Despite Trump’s rapid announcement to media that he would be appealing the decision, US District Judge John Coughenour deemed the order “blatantly unconstitutional” and criticised it.

Anyone born in the United States automatically becomes a citizen according to the 14th Amendment, which guarantees citizenship to all inhabitants of the country.

According to Trump’s order, this category does not include anyone who is in the US illegally or on a visa because they are not “subject to the jurisdiction” of the country.

His detractors point out that the 14th Amendment has been in effect for more than a century, having been passed in 1868 during the United States’ efforts to rebuild from the Civil War.

An 1898 US Supreme Court decision involving the denial of admittance to the US for a Chinese-American man named Wong Kim Ark—who was not a citizen—has been referenced by them.

The court’s decision upheld the right of all children born in the US, regardless of their parents’ immigration status, to citizenship.