A Maryland judge halted the administration’s revised birthright-citizenship order, reaffirming that a president cannot create new constitutional exceptions through executive instruction alone.
A federal judge in Maryland issued a preliminary injunction against President Trump’s August executive order seeking to limit birthright citizenship in specified cases, including what the administration described as birth tourism. Judge Deborah Boardman held that the plaintiffs were likely to prevail and said the order was almost certainly unconstitutional as applied to the certified class. The ruling does not end the litigation, but it blocks enforcement for now and underscores that the administration’s revised approach faces the same constitutional barrier as its broader earlier effort.
A Maryland judge halted the administration’s revised birthright-citizenship order, reaffirming that a president cannot create new constitutional exceptions through executive instruction alone.
A federal judge in Maryland issued a preliminary injunction against President Trump’s August executive order seeking to limit birthright citizenship in specified cases, including what the administration described as birth tourism.
The administration tried to recast a constitutional question as a list of exceptions, and a federal court stopped it again.
A president can test a boundary, but cannot move it alone.
A president can test a boundary, but cannot move it alone.
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