Federal judge halts Trump's executive order ending birthright citizenship

WBAL ^ | 01/23/2025 | MIKE CATALINI

[BenLurkin]

A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order ending the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship regardless of the parents’ immigration status.

U.S. District Judge John C. Coughenour ruled in the case brought by the states of Washington, Arizona, Illinois and Oregon, which argue the 14th Amendment and Supreme Court case law have cemented birthright citizenship.

[dpetty121263]

Ignore these Judges and just do it, Obama and Biden did...

[cuban leaf]

Of course he did. This is going to the SCOTUS.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Piggies like the clown up in the retarded northwest should not be allowed to make these decisions without at least five adults being present in the room.

[AbolishCSEU]

BINGO! Eviction Moratoriums were found unconstitutional by SCOTUS but Benedict Biden did it anyway and all the BLUE states prolonged the taking.

[hal ogen]

Given the great variation in competence and sanity on the courts I don’t doubt that there are judges who most likely are incompetent or of little integrity.

[Vermont Lt]

That’s not a surprise. Send it right up to the Supremes. Get a final answer.

[Tallguy]

Court rulings didn’t stop college loan forgiveness by Joe Biden. All Trump as to do is play the commander-in-chief card and declare this a response to invasion. Then we skip a lot of intermediate steps and get to the USSC in a heartbeat instead of being tied up for the rest of Trumps term in office.

[scubabike]

Bull crap. The ruling should have been that the states to not have standing to bring the case. States have no involvement with citizenship.

[normbal]

There IS no “guarantee of birthright citizenship.”

“ All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside”

ONLY children of US Citizens, or those otherwise under the jurisdiction of our Constitution (those living in territories, on reservations, etc) NOT of a foreign country.

This is SO simple it’s why the founders left it as is.

Lawyers and Judges need remedial reading comprehension lessons.

[Reily]

Federal district judge, states had nothing to do with this

[EBH]

Trump knew this would happen. On Inauguration night, when a reporter questioned him about it...Trump’s response was ‘we’ll just have to see.’

[Iron Munro]

Surprised that it took this long.

[OKSooner]

Yes, exactly according to plan. It’s never been addressed/interpreted by SCOTUS.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“Surprised that it took this long.”

Me, too. I figured it would have happened Monday night.

[Political Junkie Too]

They're just playing their part in moving this along to SCOTUS.

-PJ

[SunStar]

Citizens or permanent residents are "subject to the jurisdiction" of the United States. Illegal immigrants from China engaging in "birth tourism" or illegals who crossed the border from Mexico or another country are "subject to the jurisdictions" of their home nations. This has been wrongly interpreted for years, and the "anchor babies" issue has not been challenged in the U.S. Supreme Court.

The whole purpose of this Executive Order is to take the issue to the USSC. However, I'm not hopeful we'll win with the current court. Would Roberts, Barrett, Kavanaugh or even Gorsuch support this obvious and proper interpretation? I think we only have two Justices that we can rely on (Thomas and Alito).

[Publius]

Correct. Trump wants a definitive reading from the Supreme Court, and this is how it starts.

[gibsonguy]

And just like last time the little dictator judges pop up like roaches and impose nation wide rulings from their little benches.

[SVTCobra03]

The 14th Amendment applied to slaves, not illegal aliens.