The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied an emergency request by the Department of Justice to reinstate Trump’s repeal of birthright citizenship. Trump’s Jan. 20 executive order ending birthright citizenship had been quickly blocked by a Seattle judge.
The decision by the court likely sets up a battle in the Supreme Court.
Trump’s DOJ argued that Trump’s executive order was “an integral part of President Trump’s broader effort to repair the United States’ immigration system and to address the ongoing crisis at the southern border.”
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The lawsuit that resulted in the appeals court case, filed by four states’ Democratic attorneys general, argued that the case wasn’t about immigration, but an area that the president didn’t have the authority to touch.
“This is not a
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