Trump's bid to restrict birthright citizenship blocked again by Biden-appointed judge

A US federal district court has again blocked Donald Trump's efforts to restrict birthright citizenship.

Judge Deborah Boardman of the US District Court for the District of Maryland granted an immigration advocacy group's request for a preliminary injunction Wednesday (local time), halting enforcement of Trump's executive orders targeting birth tourism, The Hill reported.

Boardman cited a Supreme Court precedent from June in granting the injunction. "I again enjoin the president's latest attempt to strip citizenship from children born in the United States to parents who are unlawfully present," she wrote in her ruling.

As a result, the administration cannot strip US citizenship from children born after Feb. 19 last year to parents in the country illegally, whether one or both parents lack legal status.

Trump signed an executive order on his first day in office last year restricting birthright citizenship guaranteed under the 14th Amendment. The Supreme Court struck it down in June.

Undeterred, Trump signed two new executive orders in July banning entry into the United States for the purpose of giving birth. Immigration advocacy groups then filed for a preliminary injunction in the Maryland federal district court.

The Hill noted that the Maryland court was chosen in part because the plaintiff organizations are based there, and that the case was assigned to Boardman, a Biden appointee.

The Justice Department argued the injunction request was moot because the two new orders were narrower in scope than the first and had not yet taken effect. The court rejected that argument, and Trump's latest attempt to restrict birth tourism was blocked again.