A federal judge on Wednesday blocked President Trump’s latest executive order restricting birthright citizenship, dealing another setback to the administration’s effort to narrow automatic U.S. citizenship for children born in the country.
U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman in Maryland issued a preliminary injunction preventing enforcement of the August 6 order, which targeted so-called “birth tourism” and several other categories of births. The order came after the Supreme Court in June rejected Trump’s earlier, broader attempt to restrict birthright citizenship.
