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Judge Blocks Trump Birthright Citizenship Limits Nationwide

9/3/2026

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Boardman Blocks Trump Order

District Judge Deborah Boardman in Maryland issued an injunction on September 2 2026, blocking President Donald Trump’s August 6 executive order limiting birthright citizenship.
The ruling protects immigrant families from the order’s “alien-enemy” and “birth-tourism” categories, threatening thousands of children’s citizenship.
The injunction follows a 6-3 Supreme Court decision in Barbara v. Trump affirming birthright citizenship.
Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project, We Are CASA, and Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection sued.

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Boardman Blocks Trump

U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman in Greenbelt, Maryland issued an injunction on September 2 2026 blocking President Donald Trump’s August 6 order limiting birthright citizenship.
The administration formed a Birth Tourism Prevention Task Force that revoked visas of hundreds accused of birth-tourism schemes.
President Donald Trump signed two related orders: one ending birth tourism, another expanding ineligible categories.
Judge Boardman called the order “almost certainly unconstitutional” and “unprecedented” after Supreme Court’s June 30 ruling.

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Boardman Blocks Trump

District Judge Deborah Boardman in Maryland issued an injunction on September 2 2026 blocking President Donald Trump’s August 6 executive order that sought to limit birthright citizenship.
The administration’s effort, Boardman said, aimed to rewrite birthright citizenship rules with a single executive action.
Boardman said the order conflicted with the Supreme Court’s June 2025 decision upholding the Fourteenth Amendment.
The State Department proposed parents show citizenship or immigration status when applying for children’s passports.

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Boardman Blocks Trump Order

District Judge Deborah Boardman in Maryland issued an injunction on September 2 2026, blocking President Donald Trump’s August 6 executive order limiting birthright citizenship.
The ruling protects immigrant families from the order’s “alien-enemy” and “birth-tourism” categories, threatening thousands of children’s citizenship.
The injunction follows a 6-3 Supreme Court decision in Barbara v. Trump affirming birthright citizenship.
Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project, We Are CASA, and Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection sued.

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