Courts Push Back on Trump's Birthright Citizenship Order and Welfare-Immigration Mandate

A federal judge in Maryland has blocked President Trump's latest executive order attempting to limit birthright citizenship, calling it "almost certainly unconstitutional." The ruling by U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman cites the Supreme Court's June decision and reinforces that the 14th Amendment's citizenship clause cannot be rewritten by executive order. This affects every child born on U.S. soil — the judge wrote that Trump is "trying to rewrite the...