JUST IN: Federal Judge Indefinitely Blocks Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Executive Order
A third federal judge has blocked Trump birthright citizenship executive order.
US District Judge Joseph Laplante, a George W. Bush appointee, granted a preliminary injunction and indefinitely blocked Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order.
The injunction was in response to a lawsuit filed by New Hampshire Indonesian Community Support, LULAC and Make the Road New York, CBS News reported.
The judge did not give a reason for the temporary injunction and said he will issue a decision on Tuesday.
CBS News reported:
A federal judge in New Hampshire on Monday blocked President Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship, becoming the third judge to do so amid more than half a dozen legal challenges to the president’s directive.
U.S. District Judge Joseph Laplante said at the end of a brief hearing that he would grant the request for a preliminary injunction sought by New Hampshire Indonesian Community Support, LULAC and Make the Road New York. The three groups filed the first federal lawsuit challenging Mr. Trump’s executive order, which he signed on his first day in office.
“The plaintiff has made the required showing to get a preliminary injunction,” Laplante, appointed by President George W. Bush, said.
He is expected to issue a written decision explaining his reasoning by Tuesday.
According to President Trump’s order, the 14th Amendment is being misinterpreted by the left to give citizenship to ‘anchor babies.’
“It is the policy of the United States that no department or agency of the United States government shall issue documents recognizing United States citizenship, or accept documents issued by State, local, or other governments or authorities purporting to recognize United States citizenship, to persons: (1) when that person’s mother was unlawfully present in the United States and the person’s father was not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of said person’s birth, or (2) when that person’s mother’s presence in the United States was lawful but temporary, and the person’s father was not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of said person’s birth,” Trump’s order stated.
Trump’s order argued the 14th Amendment has always excluded babies born to people in the US illegally.
“[The] Fourteenth Amendment has never been interpreted to extend citizenship universally to everyone born within the United States. The Fourteenth Amendment has always excluded from birthright citizenship persons who were born in the United States but not “subject to the jurisdiction thereof.” Consistent with this understanding, the Congress has further specified through legislation that “a person born in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof” is a national and citizen of the United States at birth, 8 U.S.C. 1401, generally mirroring the Fourteenth Amendment’s text,” the order stated.
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