ACLU of Maine Among Those Taking Legal Action Against President Trump's New Birthright Citizenship Executive Order

Trump courts another legal defeat on birthright citizenship

Less than two months after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled his executive order on birthright citizenship to be unconstitutional, President Donald Trump has issued not one but two new executive orders on birthright citizenship that largely retread the same illegal grounds that the Supreme Court already rejected in Trump v. Barbara. Is this just a futile outburst from a consummate sore loser? Or does Trump actually stand a chance of faring any better…

Trump tries birthright citizenship again — and this time, he read the fine print

I’ve spent a career drafting language that has to mean exactly one thing under stress: contracts, offering memoranda, expert reports, the kind of documents where a loose word costs a client real money. That discipline explains what’s happening in the fight over birthright citizenship. When a court reads your position narrowly, you don’t quit; you find the part it didn’t reject. President Donald Trump signed two new executive orders last week on …

Trump’s latest birthright citizenship order is also unconstitutional

President Trump seems temperamentally incapable of recognizing the scope of his loss in the U.S. Supreme Court on the issue of birthright citizenship.  Rather than accept the court’s definitive ruling that “the Constitution guarantees citizenship to children born of parents unlawfully or temporarily present in the United States,” he recently released a new executive order purporting to deny…

ACLU of Maine Among Those Taking Legal Action Against President Trump's New Birthright Citizenship Executive Order

After the U.S. Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s executive order ending automatic citizenship for those born on American soil, the White House issued two new orders seeking to narrow the scope of birthright citizenship. Rather than broadly denying citizenship to children whose “mother was unlawfully present in the United States and [whose] father [...] The post ACLU of Maine Among Those Taking Legal Action Against President Trum…

Donald Goes After His Birthright Citizenship Obsession Again

Donald Revives Birthright Citizenship 2.0 Drivel to Rile Up His Xenophobic Base August 15, 2026 There are two ways to look at the latest ridiculous executive…

Catholic legal group criticises Trump’s birthright-citizenship order as bishops plan to monitor

The Catholic Legal Immigration Network (CLINIC) criticised an executive order targeting birthright citizenship. The US Catholic bishops are reviewing and monitoring the order. By Tyler Arnold A Catholic legal group criticised president Donald Trump’s executive orders to restrict birthright citizenship, and the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is reviewing and monitoring them. The executive orders issued August 6 direct the government to…