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President Trump’s move to head off more anchor babies is under attack in court again. On Friday, lawyers from multiple Democrat-led states called on a Boston federal court judge to stop the president’s executive order on birthright citizenship.
The U.S. supreme court has already ruled that federal district courts don’t have the authority to issue nationwide injunctions, and different federal judge in New Hampshire has already blocked the president’s executive order. But getting another ruling against Trump might give advocates for birthright citizenship more legal ammunition if the case ends up back before the Supreme Court as expected.
Trump’s executive order told federal agencies to refuse to recognize any claims to citizenship of children who happened to be born in the U.S. if neither of their parents is a U.S. citizen or in the country legally.
The Supreme Court’s verdict did not rule on that order, only on the authority of federal judges to issue injunctions that apply nationwide.