by EuroNews with AP
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A federal judge on Friday issued a third court that blocked the Trump administration from illegally ending the birthright citizenship of parents’ children in the United States and obstructed the birthrights of the nation since the major Supreme Court ruling in June.
US District Judge Leo Sorokin, who joins another district court and the Appeal Review Board, found that national injunctions granted to more than a dozen states remain exceptional to the Supreme Court’s decision. The decision limited the ability of judges on the lower court to issue national injunctions.
The state argues that Trump’s birthright citizenship order is blatantly unconstitutional and threatens millions of dollars for health insurance services that are conditional on citizenship status. The matter is expected to return to the National Supreme Court soon.
White House spokesman Abigail Jackson said in a statement that the administration “looks forward to being proven on appeal.”
New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin, who led the lawsuit before Sorokin, said in a statement that he was “excited that the district court once again barred President Trump’s significantly unconstitutional birthright citizenship order from being enforced anywhere.”
“American babies are Americans, just like they did at every time in our country’s history,” he added. “The President cannot change that legal rule with the stroke of a pen.”
Sorokin admitted that his orders were not the last words about birthright citizenship.
The Trump administration has yet to appeal any of the recent court decisions. The president’s efforts to deny citizenship to children born to parents who are illegally or temporarily in the country will remain blocked, as long as the Supreme Court says otherwise and not until then.
A federal judge in New Hampshire announced a ruling earlier this month prohibiting Trump’s executive order from being implemented nationwide in new rank lawsuits. New Hampshire US District Judge Joseph Laplante suspended his own decision to allow the Trump administration to appeal, but no appeal was filed and his order came into effect.
On Wednesday, the San Francisco-based court of appeals found the president’s executive order unconstitutional and confirmed a national bloc of lower courts.
A Maryland judge said last week that if the appeal court signed off, she would do the same.
The judge ruled last month that lower courts generally cannot issue national injunctions, but that did not rule out other court orders that could have national impact, such as class action cases and cases filed by the state. The Supreme Court did not decide whether the underlying citizenship order was constitutional.
