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“Blatantly Unconstitutional”: U.S. Judge Blocks Trump Order Ending Birthright Citizenship

HeadlineJan 24, 2025

A federal judge in Seattle has blocked President Trump’s executive order ending the constitutional guarantee of citizenship for anyone born in the U.S. Nick Brown is Washington state attorney general.

Attorney General Nicholas Brown: “This is step one. But to hear the judge from the bench say that in his 40 years as a judge, he has never seen something so blatantly unconstitutional sets the tone for the seriousness of this effort. … I think what the order today reinforces is that no one individual, not even the president of the United States, can simply erase what it means to amend the Constitution and the process therein.”

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