A federal judge blocked President Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship from taking effect on Thursday.
U.S. District Court Judge John Coughenour, a Reagan appointee, said the order was “blatantly unconstitutional,” according to Reuters.
“I have difficulty understanding how a member of the bar could state unequivocally that is a constitutional order,” Coughenour said, according to the Washington State Standard. “It boggles my mind.”
Washington, along with Oregon, Arizona and Illinois, initially sued the Trump administration on Tuesday. Several other Democratic state attorneys general and liberal groups followed with their own lawsuits.
Trump issued his order on “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship” on his first day in office.
“[T]he Fourteenth Amendment has never been interpreted to extend citizenship universally to everyone born within the United States,” Trump’s order states. “The Fourteenth Amendment has always excluded from birthright citizenship persons who were born in the United States but not ‘subject to the jurisdiction thereof.’”
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