Federal Judge Predictably Blocks Trump’s Executive Order Limiting Birthright Citizenship [Op-Ed]

At this point, when President Donald Trump signs any executive order that aims to legalize a clear violation of the U.S. Constitution, we should all start taking bets on how long it will be before a federal judge tells him he can’t do that.

Last month, when Trump signed a pair of executive orders seeking to deny people who engage in what the White House describes as “birth tourism” access to the U.S., and to expand the definitions of people that it states are ineligible for birthright citizenship — which was clearly his way of trying to get around the Supreme Court’s ruling that upheld birthright citizenship — I pointed to the expression that says “The definition of insanity is trying the same thing over and over again, and expecting different results.”

Well, apparently, Trump might be insane, and on Wednesday, in a ruling that was as predictable as the sun rising and falling, a judge in Maryland blocked his order, at least temporarily.

According to the New York Times, US District Judge Deborah Boardman issued a preliminary injunction, ruling that the Supreme Court had already settled what Trump is trying to rehash with his latest EO.

“No presidential executive order can undo what the Supreme Court has done,” she wrote in a 35-page opinion, adding that the Trump administration’s reasoning was clearly a back-end way of getting around the SCOTUS ruling, and that the president and others named in the lawsuit “completely misread” the majority’s opinion and embraced a “distorted interpretation” of its conclusions.

I mean, to be fair, a “distorted interpretation” of reality is pretty much Trump’s entire world.

Boardman also noted that when it comes to birthright citizenship, Trump keeps trying it, and the result remains the same.

“Since his second term in office began on January 20, 2025, the president has tried, through executive order, to upend our country’s longstanding tradition of birthright citizenship and eliminate, for large swaths of Americans, the right to citizenship by birth, a right enshrined in the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment,” she wrote.

And that’s exactly what Trump’s attack on birthright citizenship is all about: keeping “swaths” of immigrants and their offspring out of the country he and his ilk would rather be a white ethnostate. That’s why temporary protected status has been revoked by the Trump administration from select groups of immigrants — namely, Haitians, Somalis, and anyone else who isn’t white enough to be welcomed with a gift bag — and it’s why the administration is in such haste to deport migrants that it’s sending them to “third world” countries they’re not even from. Even if Trump’s anti-birthright citizenship orders had merit, he and his White House simply couldn’t be trusted to decide which migrants might be “birther tourists,” or who current immigration policy should apply to and who it shouldn’t.

Anyway, going back to that thing I said earlier about the “definition of insanity,” Attorney General Todd Blanche told Fox News’s Laura Ingraham on Wednesday that he expected the judge to rule against the administration, and that — wait for it — “If we have to go back to the Supreme Court, we will.”

My good people, the inmates are running the asylum.

Sad.

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