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“Blatantly Unconstitutional”: Trump’s Attack on Birthright Citizenship Is Off to a Bad Start

A federal judge in Washington state dealt the first blow to President Donald Trump’s aspirations of rewriting the Constitution and throwing away a century-old legal precedent in his quest to eliminate birthright citizenship. On Thursday, Judge John C. Coughenour issued a four-page temporary restraining order blocking Trump’s day-one proclamation denying automatic citizenship to children born […]

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