Federal judge blocks Trump's birthright citizenship order in Maryland

A federal judge in Maryland blocked President Trump's latest executive order restricting birthright citizenship, calling it "almost certainly unconstitutional" and granting a preliminary injunction in a case brought by two immigration advocacy groups. U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman ruled the directive likely violates the 14th Amendment, citing a Supreme Court decision from June that struck down Trump's earlier attempt. Her order prohibits enforcement against children born after February 19, 2025, to parents not lawfully in the country. The new order, issued about a month after the Supreme Court ruling, targets "birth tourism" and expands exclusions to children of alien enemies or foreign terrorist organization members. The Justice Department argued the restrictions were narrower and the case premature, but Boardman found those arguments unpersuasive.