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Court Blocks Trump's Order to End Birthright Citizenship

A federal judge in Seattle has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's new executive order aimed at ending birthright citizenship, according to reports CBS News.

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At a hearing on January 23, U.S. District Court Judge John C. Coffenauer called Trump's order "patently unconstitutional" and said he would grant a request for a temporary restraining order filed by four Democratic states: Washington, Arizona, Illinois and Oregon.

The four states argue that the president's order ending birthright citizenship violates the 14th Amendment, which states: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."

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"However, under the order, children born today are no longer considered American citizens," said Washington state attorney Lane Polozola, noting that Trump's actions will affect hundreds of thousands of children across the country.

Polozola stressed that the abolition of birthright citizenship is an “unacceptable measure.”

The ruling will remain in effect until the trial is over. It was the first blow to Trump's unilateral measures to combat immigration, a policy the 47th president began pushing immediately after taking the oath of office.

A Justice Department spokesman said the agency would defend President Trump's order, which department officials believe correctly interprets the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

"We look forward to presenting our full arguments on this matter to the court and to the American people who desperately want our nation's laws to be enforced," the statement said.

Trump told reporters that his administration plans to appeal the court's decision but declined to comment further.

Kwame Raoul, Illinois Attorney General, expressed satisfaction that the court blocked the president's order.

"The right of every person born on the territory of this country to be its citizen is enshrined in the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution more than 150 years ago, after the Civil War. And no president has the power to abolish the Constitution," he argued.

The president's order to end birthright citizenship is one of several executive orders he signed immediately after his inauguration. The order prohibits federal agencies from issuing citizenship documents to children born in the United States to parents who are in the country illegally or on temporary visas.

Trump's measure was immediately challenged by four states, with another 18 states preparing to join them. A number of human rights organizations are also speaking out against the order.

In a four-page order issued after the hearing, Coffenauer wrote that the executive order was detrimental to states, forcing agencies to "lose federal funding and incur significant costs in providing health and social services to these children at state expense."

Moreover, Coffenauer noted, residents of these states are deprived of their constitutional right to citizenship, as well as all the rights and privileges associated with it.

Drawing on his 40 years of experience as a judge, Kohvenauer said he couldn't recall a time when the question was "as obvious as this one."

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Coffenauer was the first judge to hold a hearing on the issue of blocking the order. He was appointed to the federal post by President Ronald Reagan in 1991.

Kofenower said he had a hard time imagining how members of the legal community could find Trump's order constitutional.

But Justice Department spokesman Brett Shumate, who defended the order, said issuing a temporary restraining order at this point was “extremely premature and inappropriate.” He suggested that Trump’s order would end up in the Supreme Court, which has a conservative majority (6-3).

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