Judge temporarily blocks Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order
Washington — A federal judge in Seattle temporarily blocks President Trump’s new bill executive order designed to eliminate birthright citizenship.
During a hearing Thursday, U.S. District Judge John C. Coughenour called Trump’s order “blatantly unconstitutional” and said he would grant four Democratic-led proposals to challenge it. Requests for temporary restraining orders filed by challenging states: Washington, Arizona, Illinois, and Oregon.
The judge’s order will remain in effect while legal proceedings continue, an early blow to Trump’s efforts to unilaterally crack down on immigration, which he promised on the campaign trail and began taking action almost immediately after he was elected. . sworn in Second term Monday.
A Justice Department spokesman said the department “will vigorously defend President Trump’s (executive order), which correctly interprets the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. We look forward to presenting our full case to the court and the desperate American people.” To see the laws of our country enforced. “
“Obviously, we’re going to appeal,” Trump told reporters on Thursday, declining to respond further.
Presidential Order Targeting Birthright Citizenship Is One wave of administrative action He signed the agreement shortly after taking office. The order directs federal agencies to stop issuing citizenship documents such as passports to children born in the United States illegally or to parents holding temporary visas.
Trump’s move was quickly challenged by four states and 18 others, as well as advocacy groups.
in a four page order The president’s executive actions forced state agencies “to lose federal funding and incur significant costs to provide necessary, legally required health care and social services to resident children,” Cognull wrote in an article published after the hearing. harming the interests of the states. He found that state residents were also harmed by “the deprivation of their constitutional citizenship and all related rights and benefits.”
Citing his four decades on the bench, Cognull said he “can’t remember” a case that raised the issue “so clearly.”
Caughnour was the first judge to hold a hearing on the issue, in which he considered requests from four states to temporarily block enforcement of the order.
The judge, who was appointed to the federal bench by President Ronald Reagan in 1991, said he had a hard time imagining members of the bar arguing that Trump’s order was constitutional.
The four states argue that Trump’s order seeking to end birthright citizenship violates the Fourteenth Amendment, which states that “all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the states wherein they are located.” “. They live. “
“With this order, babies born today are no longer considered U.S. citizens,” Lane Polozola, an attorney representing Washington state, said at the hearing, adding that hundreds of thousands of children across the country will affected by Trump’s actions.
Polozola said revoking birthright citizenship is “forbidden.”
But Justice Department attorney Brett Shumate, who defended the order, said issuing a temporary restraining order to block the measure at this time was “highly inappropriate and premature.” He predicted that challenges to Trump’s measures would eventually go to the Supreme Court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority.
