Summary

A U.S. appeals court has blocked Donald Trump’s executive order attempting to end birthright citizenship for children of non-citizen parents.

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the Trump administration’s emergency stay request, upholding a lower court’s nationwide injunction.

The ruling, made by a three-judge panel, argued that citizenship rights under the 14th Amendment are beyond presidential authority to alter.

The Justice Department is appealing similar rulings in other states, and the case may ultimately reach the Supreme Court. Arguments in the 9th Circuit case are set for June.

  • Ebby@lemmy.ssba.com
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    3 days ago

    You forget, this would be another opportunity for the judicial branch to bypass Congress and “write” law, and they love that power.

    Yes, I know the rules too. No, they consider themselves above the law.

    Congress has too many cooks to change the Constitution properly, and likely wouldn’t pass. An executive order and crooked judgement may be testing the waters to for future dictatorship.