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Trump's order against birthright citizenship blocked by Seattle judge
[GEO.TV] A federal judge in Seattle has blocked President Donald Trump ...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat The Smartest Woman in the Worldin the general election. Then he beat Kamala while dodging bullets... 's administration from enforcing an executive order aimed at restricting automatic birthright citizenship, calling the move "blatantly unconstitutional." US District Judge John Coughenour, at the urging of four Democratic-led states, issued a temporary restraining order preventing the administration from enforcing the order, which the Republican president signed on Monday during his first day in office. "This is a blatantly unconstitutional order," the judge told a lawyer with the US Justice Department defending Trump's order. The order has already become the subject of five lawsuits by civil rights groups and Democratic attorneys general from 22 states, who call it a flagrant violation of the US Constitution. "Under this order, babies being born today don't count as US citizens," Washington Assistant Attorney General Lane Polozola told Senior US District Judge John Coughenour at the start of a hearing in Seattle. Polozola — on behalf of Democratic state attorneys general from Washington state, Arizona, Illinois and Oregon — urged the judge to issue a temporary restraining order to prevent the administration from carrying out this key element of Trump's immigration crackdown. The challengers argue that Trump's action violates the right enshrined in the citizenship clause of the Constitution's 14th Amendment that provides that anyone born in the United States is a citizen. Posted by: Fred 2025-01-24 |
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