Trump's "blatantly unconstitutional" executive order to terminate birthright citizenship is blocked by a judge.

 

The request by Washington Attorney General Nick Brown and three other Democratic-led states for an emergency order that would stop the policy's implementation for the next 14 days while additional briefings are held in the legal challenge was granted by Judge John Coughenour, a Ronald Reagan appointee who sits in Seattle.

"I've spent more than 40 years on the bench. Coughenour remarked, "I can't recall another instance where the question was as obvious. The judge questioned, "Where were the lawyers" when the executive order was decided to be signed. That a member of the bar would argue that the order was constitutional "boggled" his mind, he said.

The Democratic-led states are requesting a temporary restraining order, claiming that Trump's executive order violates the 14th Amendment of the Constitution, which stipulates that all children born in the United States are entitled to citizenship "and subject to the jurisdiction thereof."

Lane Polozola, a state of Washington lawyer, informed the Court that "births cannot be paused" while the matter is being considered. Polozola stated, "Babies are being born here, in the plaintiff states, and throughout the nation, with a cloud cast over their citizenship."Trump further stated that children who are denied citizenship as a result of his order will experience "long term substantial negative impacts." 

Polozola also contended that the injury "appears to be the purpose" of the executive order, and that the Trump administration had overlooked such effects in the submissions it has made thus far in the issue.

In addition to the effects Trump's order will have on their citizens, Washington and the other states contend that the termination of birthright citizenship will put a financial and administrative strain on their state programs because those children will no longer be eligible for federal benefits to which they would otherwise be entitled as citizens.

According to the Trump administration, the president can reject children of undocumented immigrants and even children whose parents are here legally but do not have permanent legal status because of the word "subject to the jurisdiction thereof."Brett Shumate, an attorney for the Justice Department, asked the judge to wait for additional policy briefing before granting an emergency injunction that would prohibit the policy.

Shumate acknowledged your worries, but he cautioned the court from rendering "a snap judgment on the merits." Shumate said that "imminent harm" is endangering the states and pointed out that the other cases contesting the executive order were proceeding more slowly. Trump informed reporters at the White House on Thursday that the administration would challenge the decision.

Additional ongoing cases nationwide Individual plaintiffs, immigrant rights organizations, and a different set of Democratic attorneys general have filed a few more lawsuits against the order this week.

A Justice Department attorney told a federal judge in Maryland during a status conference on Thursday in one of those lawsuits that he was not aware of any federal agencies that had started action to start enforcing the order next month. Immigrant rights organizations and state pregnant women whose unborn children would be affected by the rule brought that challenge.

"Three days earlier, amid an administration transition, the executive order was issued. And therefore, the lawyer, Brad Rosenberg, told US District Judge Deborah Boardman, "it's very early for the agencies to develop their policies that would be necessary to implement it." At a hearing scheduled on February 5, the plaintiffs will ask the judge to temporarily stop the order. In the meantime, a federal judge in New Hampshire has scheduled a hearing for February 10 to hear the American Civil Liberties Union's and other civil rights and immigrant rights organizations' plea to temporarily halt the order's  See More...