10 entries in the ledger
U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman in Greenbelt, Maryland declined on Aug. 28 to issue a temporary restraining order against Trump's Aug. 6 executive order narrowing birthright citizenship, saying she could not block...
In a filing on August 11, 2026 in federal court in Concord, New Hampshire, the ACLU and other groups asked the judge to declare that Trump's August 6 executive orders cannot be used to strip citizenship from children...
The State Department announced on Aug. 11, 2026 that it established a task force to end "birth tourism" — traveling to the U.S. to give birth so a child acquires citizenship. "As President Trump has made clear...
On Aug. 6, 2026, President Trump signed an executive order, “Continuing to Protect the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship,” directing every executive department and agency to refuse to issue — and to refuse to...
On July 8, 2026, President Trump announced on Truth Social that he would seek rehearing of Trump v. Barbara, the case in which the Supreme Court ruled against his executive order restricting birthright citizenship. "I...
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that the administration could not deny citizenship to children born in the United States based on their parents' immigration status, striking down the legal basis of Executive Order...
On April 1, 2026, President Trump attended oral argument at the Supreme Court in Trump v. Barbara, the challenge to his executive order restricting birthright citizenship. He arrived at 9:47 a.m. with Attorney General...
After the Supreme Court limited the availability of universal (nationwide) injunctions without ruling on the underlying birthright-citizenship question, a federal judge certified a class of affected children and again...
On June 27, 2025, the Supreme Court decided Trump v. CASA, Inc., holding 6-3 that universal injunctions likely exceed the equitable authority Congress gave federal courts in the Judiciary Act of 1789. Justice Amy Coney...
On his first day in office, Trump signed Executive Order 14160, seeking to deny automatic U.S. citizenship to certain children born on American soil based on their parents' immigration status. The order challenged the...