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A federal judge in Maryland has issued a preliminary injunction against President Donald Trump's Aug. 6 executive order limiting birthright citizenship, the second time U.S.
District Judge Deborah Boardman has blocked a White House attempt to narrow the 14th Amendment's guarantee. The 35-page ruling came after the Supreme Court held, in a 5-4 decision in Barbara v.
Trump, that children born in the United States to parents unlawfully or temporarily present are citizens at birth.
The ruling Boardman wrote that the 2026 executive order is "almost certainly unconstitutional as applied to the certified class for the simple reason that the Supreme Court in Barbara already decided that the children in the class are citizens at birth." Her injunction is the first to halt the revised order since that June Supreme Court decision.
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