A federal judge on Wednesday blocked the Trump administration from enforcing a new executive order limiting the number of people eligible for birthright citizenship that President Donald Trump issued after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected his previous effort. U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman in Greenbelt, Maryland, issued a preliminary injunction at the request of immigrant rights advocates who had last year secured a ruling from her blocking the Trump administration from enforcing his initial 2025 executive order curtailing birthright citizenship.
The U.S. Supreme Court on June 30 rejected that initial effort to end birthright citizenship for children whose parents were not American citizens or legal permanent residents, known as green card holders, finding it violated the citizenship clause of the U.S. Constitution’s 14th Amendment. The clause confers citizenship to those born in the United States who are “subject to the jurisdiction thereof.” Following that decision, Trump signed a new order on Aug. 6 that took particular aim at “birth tourism,” in which women travel to the United States to give birth so their children can obtain automatic citizenship.
