A U.S. appeals court has upheld the ruling blocking President Donald Trump from restricting automatic birthright citizenship nationwide as part of his strict immigration policies. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco denied the Trump administration’s request to pause a nationwide injunction issued by a federal judge in Seattle. This marks the first appellate court decision on Trump’s executive order, with the possibility of the case reaching the U.S. Supreme Court. Multiple states have challenged the order, arguing that it violates the 14th Amendment’s citizenship clause. The court set the case for arguments in June, emphasizing the importance of making informed and impartial decisions. No immediate response was provided by the White House or the Justice Department following the ruling.
A constitutional amendment is being proposed in an executive order. If permitted to remain in effect, President Trump’s order would, for the first time, strip over 150,000 children born in the United States each year of their citizenship rights, according to state attorneys general. This information was reported by Nate Raymond in Boston and edited by Christopher Cushing and Stephen Coates.
