ACLU Blasts Trump Birthright Citizenship Orders as Supreme Court Rejected Similar Move 5 Weeks Ago
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Updated · The Guardian · Aug 7
ACLU Blasts Trump Birthright Citizenship Orders as Supreme Court Rejected Similar Move 5 Weeks Ago
3 articles · Updated · The Guardian · Aug 7
Summary
Five weeks after the Supreme Court struck down a similar order, the ACLU said Trump’s new executive actions to restrict birthright citizenship should fail in court as well.
Cody Wofsy, deputy director of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project, called the orders an attempted end-run around the court’s ruling and said executive action cannot alter the Constitution’s meaning.
The group framed the dispute as already settled by the justices, arguing birthright citizenship is constitutionally guaranteed and any new order would meet the same fate as the last one.