January 24, 2025

Federal Lawsuit Filed Immediately Following Trump’s Executive Order Ending Birthright Citizenship

Less than 2 hours after President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order (“EO”) attempting to end birthright citizenship, immigrant advocates started to file lawsuits in Federal Court attempting to block Trump’s Executive Order.

The first lawsuit was filed in the U.S. Federal District Court of New Hampshire on behalf of a group representing Indonesian migrants in the State. It was signed by a total of twenty-six (26) attorneys representing the American Civil Liberties Union, State Democracy Defends Fund, the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Endowment Fund, League of United Latin American Citizens and Make the Road New York as plaintiffs.

Following New Hampshire, more than two dozen additional lawsuits were filed against the EO in Federal District Courts contending that the EO violates the U.S. Constitution’s 14th Amendment, U.S. Supreme Court precedent since 1898 (United States v. Wong Kim Ark), as well as federal law which has been practiced for over eighty (80) years.

Shortly thereafter, a federal judge in Seattle issued an order temporarily blocking the EO which was scheduled to take effect on February 19, 2025 – one month after Trump was sworn in as the 47th President.

In his ruling, Judge John Coughenour said the EO “boggles the mind.” Judge Coughenour further told the court that he does not remember in his more than 40 years on the bench as a federal judge seeing a case that was so “blatantly unconstitutional.”

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Categories: Birthright Citizenship, Executive Order, Trump

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