Washington:
A federal judge blocked on Wednesday the attempt of Donald Trump to restrict the citizenship of birth law in the United States in a blow to the president’s attempt to end a right enshrined in the Constitution for more than a century.
The ruling prohibits the application of one of Trump’s most controversial executive orders indefinitely, which should enter into force throughout the country on February 19.
“The denial of the precious right to citizenship will cause irreparable damage,” said District Judge Deborah Boardman during the hearing in a Maryland court.
He pointed out that the precedent of the Supreme Court protects the citizenship of birth law, adding that Trump’s order “conflicts with the simple language of amendment 14,” said Washington Post.
“No court in the country has supported the president’s interpretation,” he said. “This court will not be the first.”
The court order joins a 14 -day suspension in the application of Trump’s executive order issued in January by a federal judge in the state of Washington.
There, the American district judge John Cughenour condemned the order as “blatantly unconstitutional,” although Trump quickly told reporters that he planned to appeal the ruling.
Birth law citizens are enshrined in the United States Constitution under amendment 14 that decrees that any person born on American land is a citizen.
Trump’s order was based on the idea that anyone in the United States illegally, or on a visa, was not “subject to the jurisdiction” of the country and, therefore, was excluded from this category.
His opponents have argued that the 14th amendment, which was ratified in 1868 as the United States sought to recover from the civil war, has been established by more than a century.
They have cited a ruling from the United States Supreme Court in 1898 in the case of a Chinese-American man named Wong Kim Ark, who was denied the re-entry to the United States on the grounds that he was not a citizen.
The court said that children born in the United States, including those born to immigrants, could not be denied citizenship.
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