Third federal judge blocks Trump's birthright citizenship order

Concord, New Hampshire — 

A 3rd national justice connected Monday blocked President Donald Trump's enforcement bid ending birthright citizenship for the children of radical who are successful the U.S. illegally.

The ruling from U.S. District Judge Joseph N. Laplante successful New Hampshire comes aft 2 akin rulings by judges successful Seattle and Maryland past week. A suit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union contends that Trump's bid violates the Constitution and "attempts to upend 1 of the astir cardinal American law values."

Trump's Republican medication has asserted that children of noncitizens are not "subject to the jurisdiction" of the United States and truthful are not entitled to citizenship.

The medication is appealing the Seattle judge's artifact connected Trump's enforcement order.

At the bosom of the lawsuits successful the 3 cases is the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, ratified successful 1868 aft the Civil War and the Dred Scott Supreme Court decision, which held that Scott, an enslaved man, wasn't a national contempt having lived successful a authorities wherever slavery was outlawed.

In 1898, successful a lawsuit known arsenic United States v. Wong Kim Ark, the U.S. Supreme Court recovered the lone children who did not automatically person U.S. citizenship upon being calved connected U.S. ungraded were children of diplomats, who person allegiance to different government; enemies contiguous successful the U.S. during hostile occupation; those calved connected overseas ships; and those calved to members of sovereign Native American tribes.

The U.S. is among astir 30 countries wherever birthright citizenship — the rule of jus soli, oregon "right of the soil" — is applied. Most are successful the Americas and Canada and Mexico are among them.