Federal appeal judge blocks Trump’s plan to terminate birthright citizenship in the United States

Federal appeal judge blocked the president on Friday Donald Trump’s It is planned to terminate the citizenship of the reproductive right of the child of illegal or temporary people.

U.S. District Court Judge Leo Sorokin ruled a nationwide ban against Trump administration terminated Citizenship with the right to birth He made the announcement earlier this year and awarded it to holders in more than a dozen states.

Sorokin says the ruling is a recent exception U.S. Supreme Court ruling This limited the ability of lower courts to issue a national injunction. The issue is expected to return to the Supreme Court.

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Trump and the administration “have the right to pursue an explanation of the Fourteenth Amendment, and there is no doubt that the Supreme Court will eventually resolve the issue,” Sorokin wrote in his ruling. “But at the same time, the executive order is unconstitutional for this current lawsuit.”

The Trump administration argues that children born in the United States are illegal and temporarily do not fall under U.S. jurisdiction and therefore have no right to obtain citizenship.

Trump signed the Executive Order of the Right to Birth Citizens, along with many other orders on the first day of January.

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The Trump administration argues that children born in the United States are illegal and temporarily not subject to U.S. jurisdiction and therefore have no right to obtain citizenship. (Getty Image)

Wednesday, San Francisco-based 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Also recognized A national injunction in the lower court, earlier this month, a federal judge in New Hampshire issued a ruling that prohibits Trump’s executive order from playing a role in new class action lawsuits nationwide.

Sorokin disagrees with the Trump administration’s argument that the Supreme Court’s ruling guarantees a narrower ruling.

Olga Urbina and her 9-month-old son Ares Webster participated in a U.S. Supreme Court protest outside President Donald Trump’s move to terminate his birthright citizenship as the court heard a debate in Washington, D.C. on May 15, 2025. (Attracting anger through Getty Images/AFP)

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The plaintiffs in the class action lawsuit argued that Trump’s executive order was unconstitutional because the 14th Amendment guarantees citizenship with the right to birth, which also threatens millions of dollars in state funding to achieve “basic” health insurance services, depending on citizenship.

Reuters and the Associated Press contributed to the report.