Overview
- A three-judge panel in Boston upheld district court injunctions, finding the president’s bid to curtail birthright citizenship is likely unconstitutional under the 14th Amendment.
- The 100-page opinion by Chief Judge David J. Barron invoked precedent including Wong Kim Ark and rejected arguments to narrow relief after the Supreme Court’s Trump v. CASA ruling.
- Friday’s decision marked the fifth federal court since June to issue or sustain orders blocking enforcement of the January executive order.
- The injunctions were sought by a coalition of nearly 20 states and immigrant-rights groups, with judges citing the administrative chaos a patchwork of citizenship rules would create.
- The Justice Department has petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to take two related cases, and the White House said the lower courts are misinterpreting the 14th Amendment.