Donald Trump signed orders dealing with the border, criminal justice and the Biden administration. In many cases, he assigned work to the attorney general.
Presidents Clinton, Biden issued orders aiming to correct environmental injustice. On Monday, President Trump issued orders revoking those efforts.
The order is titled “Ending the Weaponization of the Federal Government,” but it asserts that the Biden administration might have acted illegally and directs agencies to seek evidence.
The order has already become the subject of five lawsuits by civil rights groups and Democratic attorneys general from 22 states.
A District Court Judge based in Seattle called Trump’s executive order halting birthright citizenship “blatantly unconstitutional” and halted it, reports Reuters. “It just boggles my mind,” Judge John Coughenour said to a Justice Department lawyer defending the president’s order.
Questions about whether Native Americans born in the United States have birthright citizenship if they aren’t “subject to the jurisdiction” of the U.S. — such as if they live on sovereign tribal land — were raised in a U.S. Justice Department filing this week defending President Donald Trump’s executive order suspending such citizenship.
A federal judge has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order ending the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship regardless of the parents’ immigration status.
A federal judge’s ruling blocking President Trump’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship is just the beginning of a blitz of litigation set to play out in the coming weeks.
A federal judge in Seattle on Thursday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship. U.S. District Court Judge John Coughenour’s ruling in a case brought by Washington and three other states is the first in what is sure to be a long legal fight over the order’s constitutionality.