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Reagan-Appointed Federal Judge Blocks Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Executive Order

A federal judge on Thursday blocked President Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship from taking effect. Federal District Judge John Cogner, a President Reagan appointee, called the order “patently unconstitutional.” According to to Reuters. “It's hard for me to understand how a lawyer could say that that's a constitutional mandate,” Coughner said. According to Compliant […]

A federal judge temporarily blocks Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship

SEATTLE (AP) – A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's executive order that would have abolished the constitutional right to birthright citizenship regardless of the immigration status of one's parents. U.S. District Judge John C. Cogner argued in a lawsuit brought by the states of Washington, Arizona, Illinois, and Oregon that the […]

Nearly 2 dozen states sue Trump admin over birthright citizenship order: ‘Unprecedented’

Nearly 20 states are suing the Trump administration over its executive order to end birthright citizenship for children of illegal immigrants, calling it unconstitutional and “unprecedented.” The lawsuit by 18 Democratic-led states states that “the president does not have the power to amend the Constitution or rewrite or invalidate duly enacted statutes, nor do he […]

GREGG JARRETT: President Trump has a valid argument on birthright citizenship

newYou can now listen to Fox News articles. It didn't take long for the Lollapalooza lawsuit to come to light. Within hours of taking office, about two dozen states sued President Donald Trump over an executive order denying automatic citizenship to U.S.-born children of parents who entered the country illegally. While the attorneys general of […]

WOLD: Liberal Lawyers Are Wrong — Trump Can, And Should, End Birthright Citizenship

American citizenship is a priceless and profound gift, but for decades the United States has given it to those simply born in this country without legal obligation. On Inauguration Day, President Trump ordered the U.S. government to stop automatically issuing citizenship documents, such as U.S. passports and Social Security numbers, to children born in the […]

Blanket Birthright Citizenship Is ‘Foolish’, But It’s in the Constitution

On Tuesday's broadcast of Newsmax TV's “The Record,” Alan Dershowitz, professor emeritus of law at Harvard University, called comprehensive birthright citizenship “stupid” and “the most compelling in our nation's constitution.” “But it's enshrined in the Constitution, so it would be difficult to change it,” he said. It would be difficult to do so without amending […]