US judge denies injunction against Trump’s new birthright citizenship order
A United States judge has rejected, for the time being, a request for a temporary restraining order to block President Donald Trump’s second executive order restricting birthright citizenship. Friday’s decision was one of the first legal tests for the new executive order, which Trump issued on August 6, after his initial attempts to limit birthright citizenship were struck down by the Supreme Court.
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Key Facts
- Fact 1: Friday’s decision was one of the first legal tests for the new executive order, which Trump issued on August 6, after his initial attempts to limit birthright citizenship were struck down by the Supreme Court.
- Fact 2: In 2025, Boardman was one of several judges who approved preliminary injunctions to block the first birthright citizenship order Trump signed, declaring it unlawful.
- Fact 3: The Fourteenth Amendment was adopted in 1868, after the US Civil War, as a means of ensuring that people who were formerly enslaved were not deprived of their rights as US citizens.
- Fact 4: In the 19th-century case United States v Wong Kim Ark, for instance, the Supreme Court ruled that an American man born to Chinese immigrants in San Francisco could not have his citizenship denied.
A United States judge has rejected, for the time being, a request for a temporary restraining order to block President Donald Trump’s second executive order restricting birthright citizenship. Friday’s decision was one of the first legal tests for the new executive order, which Trump issued on August 6, after his initial attempts to limit birthright citizenship were struck down by the Supreme Court.
Trump targets birthright citizenship again Trump faces lawsuit over push to limit birthright citizenship Can Trump limit birthright citizenship? Legal experts are doubtful District Court Judge Deborah Boardman, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, declined to immediately approve the preliminary injunction, despite expressing concern about Trump’s new order. “As far as I can tell, this is unprecedented,” Boardman said of the order.
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Original source: Al Jazeera