A federal judge in Seattle has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at ending birthright citizenship, deeming the presidential directive “blatantly unconstitutional.”
Trump signed Executive Order 14156, titled Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship, on his first day in office. The order seeks to end birthright citizenship for children born in the U.S. to noncitizen parents, but it has already encountered significant legal pushback. U.S. District Judge John Coughenour issued a restraining order against its implementation on Thursday, siding with several states that argued the executive action violates the 14th Amendment and contradicts long-standing Supreme Court rulings.
The executive order was set to take effect in February, marking a bold attempt to reshape the interpretation of the 14th Amendment, which has guaranteed citizenship to nearly all individuals born on U.S. soil since its ratification in 1868. Many legal experts, however, argue that any effort to alter this constitutional guarantee would require far more than an executive order.
The Supreme Court decision in United States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898) affirmed that the 14th Amendment grants citizenship to nearly all individuals born in the U.S., regardless of their parents’ nationality. This precedent has formed the legal backbone of birthright citizenship for over a century.
While supporters of the policy have praised it as a necessary measure to protect the integrity of American citizenship, critics have called it an overreach of executive authority and an attack on constitutional principles. For now, the legal battle continues.
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Just the Democrats trying to ruin this country more by giving illegals a way to get to stay in this country and live off the welfare paid by Taxc payors.
Children born to foreign diplomats serving in the US are not US citizens at birth. Native American children born in the US after the 14th Amendment was in place were not US citizens at birth. The Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 granted citizenship at birth to Native Americans. It is obvious the words “and subject to the jurisdiction thereof” have an ignored and overlooked meaning.
I have been led to believe that the Supreme Court decision in United States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898) required that 1) the parents were in the country legally and 2) had a permanent address. I fail to see how an illegal immigrant wading across a river and shortly thereafter delivers a baby meets those requirements.
Did you know the Communist China has specially fitted large aircraft which brings pregnant, almost ready to pop, Chinese females to California, where they are take to birther houses to have their children so they get US Citizenship by birthright? Then once the child is born,and the mother is able to return to China, they get on one of those same aircraft and return to China. Ask youself, why has this program been gong on for decades unless their is an agenda by the Communist Chinese Goverment. Do you think that the Chinese would allow expectant mothers from the US to go there to birth their children in China to get Chinese citizenship?
The citizenship of the child should be by the citizenship of the parents. If one is a US citizen then US and ??, they parents get to choose which one.
The 14th Amendment was , as far as Birth Right Citizenship was conceito make Native American Indians, and NOT the children of Non-Citizens. The “so called” Judge evidently was not a Constitutional, therefore should keep their mouths shut. Our Constitution was written for the People of The United States, and that’s was written at the top of the Constitution.
It is not right to claim a person born here a citizen if the parents were here illegally. That my opinion! It is a stupid law!
This Federal Judge is an IDIOT and doesn’t understand what “subject to our jurisdiction therein”. If a baby is born from Illegal parents on U.S. soi, it is, by definition, NOT subject to the jurisdiction therein. They remain subject to the jurisdiction of their parents’ home country. They are no different than a stowaway who isn’t part of the passenger manifest, a diplomat’s family or any other foreigners traveling in the U.S. with a passport The SCOTUS should set this IDIOT straight.l
Who is this judge? WHY hasn’t he been kicked off of the bench, arrested, charged with treason, tried, convicted, and sentenced to death according to the law?
Remember…?
The law…?
When Obama declared, “it’s unconstitutional but we will do it anyway”, the democrats had no problem with it. When Biden said, “it’s unconstitutional( forgiving unpaid student loans) but we are going to do it anyway” , the democrats had no problem with it. Democrats are egregious hypocrites and the most un-American politicos. They are America’s greatest threat to unity, our security, our personal freedoms, and our personal wealth. Recall each and everyone of them. Show them we the people rule America not far leftist politicians.
Yet another ‘judge’ who is ‘interpreting the 14th based on his personal biases. Have any of them looked at the ‘subject to the jurisdiction’ phrase? I think not.
Trump can save our country but liberals who are trying to destroy us will fight him at every turn. It is imperative that “we the people” support the Trump administration.