Trump’s birthright citizenship order is unconstitutional, appeals court rules
Appeals court rules on Trump’s birthright citizenship order
- A federal appeals court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, has ruled that Donald Trump’s executive order aiming to end birthright citizenship is unconstitutional.
- The court stated that the order contradicts the plain language of the Fourteenth Amendment, which grants citizenship to all persons born in the United States.
- This ruling prevents the Trump administration from enforcing the order, which would deny citizenship to children born in the U.S. to parents who are in the country illegally or temporarily.
- The judges fully agreed with a previous lower-court decision that had blocked the order nationwide.
- This decision moves the issue, concerning the redefinition of citizenship, closer to potentially being reviewed by the Supreme Court.