A federal appeals court has delivered a significant blow to President Donald Trump’s efforts to dismantle birthright citizenship, ruling that his executive order attempting to end the constitutional guarantee is itself unconstitutional.
In a 2-1 decision issued by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, a panel of judges upheld a lower court’s nationwide block on the Trump administration’s attempt to deny automatic citizenship to children born in the U.S. to undocumented or temporary-status migrants.
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