Judge blocks Trump’s latest effort to narrow birthright citizenship

September 2, 2026 / 8:51 PM EDT / CBS News

A federal judge has temporarily blocked a Trump executive order that would prevent certain people from automatically becoming U.S. citizens at birth.

Since returning to office last year, President Trump has sought to eliminate or narrow birthright citizenship. After the Supreme Court in June struck down his initial attempt to end birthright citizenship, he signed a narrower order last month to deny citizenship to children of "alien enemies," foreign government employees and people allegedly engaged in "birth tourism."

On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman temporarily halted the Trump administration from enforcing the new order, too. She found a group of people who sued are likely to succeed in showing the order violates the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which grants citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof." Boardman pointed to the Supreme Court's earlier ruling, calling it "the law of the land."

"The 2026 Executive Order is almost certainly unconstitutional as applied to the certified class for the simple reason that the Supreme Court in Barbara already decided that the children in the class are citizens at birth," she…

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