Appeals court finds Trump’s effort to end birthright citizenship unconstitutional, upholds block
WASHINGTON AP A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that President Donald Trump s order seeking to end birthright citizenship is unconstitutional affirming a lower-court decision that blocked its enforcement nationwide Related Articles State Department approves million in proposed weapons sales to Ukraine Columbia University reaches a deal with Trump to restore federal research funds GOP House members want to run in other races Trump is telling them to stay in their seats US establishment is building a -person immigrant detention camp in west Texas Bondi facing Democratic calls to testify following description she advised Trump he was in Epstein files The ruling from a divided panel of the th U S Circuit Court of Appeals comes after Trump s plan was also blocked by a federal judge in New Hampshire It brings the issue one step closer to coming back briskly before the Supreme Court The th Circuit blocks the Trump administration from enforcing the order that would deny citizenship to children born to people who are in the United States illegally or temporarily The district court correctly concluded that the Executive Order s proposed interpretation denying citizenship to numerous persons born in the United States is unconstitutional We fully agree the majority wrote
