Another Federal Judge Slams Trump Executive Order on Birthright Citizenship

Judge Debrah Boardman.  Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Not surprising news after a similar ruling in federal court in Seattle but a federal judge today blocked President Trump’s executive order preventing the children of migrants without legal status from receiving birthright citizenship.  Appointed by Joe Biden, U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman said Trump’s order “runs counter to our nation’s 250-year history of citizenship by birth” and likely violates an 1898 Supreme Court decision on the issue.  She issued a nationwide injunction barring the executive order on birthright citizenship to go into effect.