A federal judge in Maryland halted President Donald Trump’s newest executive action to restrict birthright citizenship.
U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman issued a temporary injunction, writing, “The 2026 Executive Order is almost certainly unconstitutional … for the simple reason that the Supreme Court in Barbara already decided that the children in the class are citizens at birth.”
Boardman was appointed by President Joe Biden.
The Supreme Court upheld citizenship for anyone born in the United States this year, but Trump issued a scaled-down executive order last month preventing birth tourism, arguing it was consistent with the court’s findings.
“We have activist judges that are going after everything [President Trump] is trying to do while they turned a blind eye to the ACTUAL corruption and the destruction of America underneath the Biden Administration,” Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin told Fox News Thursday after the decision was released.
[Editor’s note: This story originally was published by The Daily Signal.]
