Immigration & refugees

Judge Blocks Trump's Birthright Citizenship Order

Is Trump's birthright citizenship order lawless overreach or is blocking it judicial overreach?

1 day ago·Updated 14 hours ago

Judge Blocks Trump's Birthright Citizenship Order

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Above: U.S. President Donald Trump in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC, on Sept. 2. Image credit: Samuel Corum/Sipa/Bloomberg/Getty Images

The Spin

Anti-Trump narrative

Trump's latest executive order on birthright citizenship is flatly unconstitutional and courts are right to block it. The Supreme Court already settled this — children in the certified class are citizens at birth by any legal standard. Ignoring that ruling is lawlessness from the very top of government.

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Pro-Trump narrative

One district judge blocking an executive order crafted specifically around the Supreme Court's own June ruling is judicial overreach at its worst. The 14th Amendment was never meant to rubber-stamp birth tourism or reward illegal entry with automatic citizenship. This fight belongs back at the Supreme Court, and that's exactly where it's headed.

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