Federal Judge Blocks Trump Administration's Latest Effort to Restrict Birthright Citizenship

A federal judge in Maryland issued a preliminary injunction, temporarily blocking the Trump administration's latest executive order aimed at imposing new limits on automatic birthright citizenship. The August executive order sought to expand categories of noncitizen parents whose children would be ineligible for citizenship, including those involved in 'commercial transactions to ensure' birth in the U.S. This ruling marks another setback for the administration's immigration agenda and sets the stage for the issue to return to the Supreme Court, which previously struck down Trump's original executive order on birthright citizenship in June.