Trump admin appeals ruling blocking birthright citizenship order

The Trump Justice Department appealed a Thursday bid blocking the president's birthright citizenship order, hours aft the ruling was issued. 

The Justice Department filed its entreaty to the Ninth Circuit connected Thursday evening. The determination came soon aft U.S. District Judge John Coughenour extended a impermanent restraining bid helium had antecedently issued. Coughenour notably scolded the Trump medication successful the Washington courtroom, accusing the medication of ignoring the regularisation of instrumentality for governmental and idiosyncratic gain. 

"It has go ever much evident that, to our president, the regularisation of instrumentality is but an impediment to his argumentation goals. The rule of law is, according to him, thing to navigate astir oregon simply ignore, whether that beryllium for governmental oregon idiosyncratic gain," Coughenour said portion announcing his ruling.

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The entreaty volition present spell up to the Ninth Circuit, which covers Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Washington and Guam. The Court of Appeals notably issues much progressive rulings with a higher reversal complaint than different circuit courts. 

The Washington ruling came lone a time aft a Maryland national justice besides blocked Trump's enforcement order. 

President Donald Trump issued the enforcement order, titled, "Protecting The Meaning And Value Of American Citizenship," connected Inauguration Day. (Getty)

U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman, a erstwhile President Joe Biden appointee, noted the Washington ruling that had antecedently paused Trump's bid from going into effect. 

Boardman said citizenship is simply a "national interest that demands a azygous policy," continuing connected to accidental that nary tribunal has yet sided with the medication connected the matter. 

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"Citizenship is simply a astir precious right, expressly granted by the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution," she wrote successful her ruling.

Trump issued the enforcement order, titled, "Protecting The Meaning And Value Of American Citizenship," connected Inauguration Day. The bid seeks to extremity birthright citizenship for children of amerciable immigrants and was 1 of respective orders helium signed that time to overhaul U.S. migration argumentation and borderline security.

The enforcement bid seeks to extremity birthright citizenship for children of amerciable immigrants and was 1 of respective orders President Donald Trump signed to overhaul U.S. migration argumentation and borderline security. (Getty Images)

Supporters and opponents of the bid disagree implicit the meaning of the 14th Amendment, which states, "All persons calved oregon naturalized successful the United States, and taxable to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."

The superior disagreement is implicit the clause, "subject to the jurisdiction thereof."

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Some ineligible experts reason that specified a determination is simply a law alteration and cannot beryllium made via enforcement order. Trump advisers and different blimpish ineligible scholars person antecedently argued that the thought of giving birthright citizenship to children of amerciable immigrants is based connected a misreading of the amendment.

The measure was introduced by Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham (SC), Katie Britt (AL), and Ted Cruz (TX), left. (Getty Images)

Senate Republicans precocious introduced a measure that would betterment U.S. instrumentality to extremity birthright citizenship successful airy of the enforcement order. The bill, titled, the "Birthright Citizenship Act of 2025," would extremity the signifier of automatically conferring citizenship presumption connected radical calved successful the U.S. of parents who are either amerciable immigrants oregon who are successful the state legally connected a impermanent basis.

The measure was introduced by Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Katie Britt of Alabama, and Ted Cruz of Texas.

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The bill’s sponsors said successful a connection that the measurement would code what they called "one of the biggest magnets for amerciable immigration," which they judge poses a weakness to nationalist security.

Fox News Digital's Louis Casiano, Adam Shaw and Peter Pinedo contributed to this report.