Judge in Boston to consider latest bid to block Trump's birthright citizenship order

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Source: PBS News Hour/AP

Feb 7, 2025 10:27 AM EST


BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge in Boston on Friday will consider a request from 18 state attorneys general to block President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship for the children of parents who are in the U.S. illegally. The hearing comes after a federal judge in Seattle blocked the order Thursday and decried what he described as the administration’s treatment of the Constitution, saying Trump was trying to change it with an executive order.

The Seattle ruling in a lawsuit brought by four states and an immigrant rights group followed one by a Maryland federal judge, who on Wednesday issued a nationwide pause on the order in a separate but similar case. In the Boston case, the state attorneys general, along with the cities of San Francisco and Washington, are asking Judge Leo Sorokin to issue a preliminary injunction.

They argue that the principle of birthright citizenship is “enshrined in the Constitution” and that Trump does not have the authority to issue the order, which they called a “flagrantly unlawful attempt to strip hundreds of thousands of American-born children of their citizenship based on their parentage.” They also say Trump’s order would cost states funding they rely on to “provide essential services” — from foster care to health care for low-income children to “early interventions for infants, toddlers, and students with disabilities.”

At the heart of the lawsuits is the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1868 after the Civil War and the Dred Scott Supreme Court decision, which held that Scott, an enslaved man, wasn’t a citizen despite having lived in a state where slavery was outlawed.

Read more: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/judge-in-boston-to-consider-latest-bid-to-block-trumps-birthright-citizenship-order

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This is a 3rd "Birthright Citizenship" case.

[JohnSJ]

1. Consider? Read the fucking Constitution, there is nothing to consider.

[BumRushDaShow]

2. I think that term is used as an old-fashioned style sheet thing

as a synonym for "will review" or "will look at" (in terms of accepting a case).

[JohnSJ]

3. I understand BRDS, I am just blowing off steam. Thanks

[BumRushDaShow]

4. I know

I am pissed too.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

5. Blistering statement from the American Bar Association on Birthright Citizenship

Link to tweet

In a blistering statement, the American Bar Association describes "attacks on constitutionally protected birthright citizenship, the dismantling of USAID and the attempts to criminalize" diversity initiatives as "wide-scale affronts to the rule of law itself."