The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and other groups asked a federal judge on Aug. 11 to prevent President Donald Trump from enforcing his two new executive orders limiting birthright citizenship.
The groups argue that the president is defying the Supreme Court’s June 30 ruling in Trump v. Barbara and creating new exceptions to the Citizenship Clause in the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. That clause establishes that all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to its jurisdiction, are citizens of the United States.
The new motion in Barbara v. Trump was filed with the U.S. District Court in New Hampshire—the same court that in July 2025 blocked Trump’s original Executive Order 14160. That earlier order sought to deny automatic citizenship to children of illegal immigrants and legal temporary visitors….
Groups Seek to Block Trump’s New Executive Orders on Birth Tourism, Birthright Citizenship
