BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from ending birthright citizenship for the children of parents who are in the U.S. illegally, issuing the third court ruling blocking the birthright order nationwide since a key Supreme Court decision in June.

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The justices paused a lower court order pending a decision on whether the Supreme Court will take up the case, a major challenge to the Voting Rights Act.

The president's reading of the 14th Amendment is contradicted by its text and history, plus 127 years of Supreme Court precedent.

As the conservative justices noted, the decision in Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health did not outlaw abortion nationwide. However, it did allow conservative states to do so. Since then, 17 Republican-led states in the South and Midwest have adopted new laws to prohibit most or all abortions.

The United States Federal Courthouse in Austin on June 9, 2023. (Joe Timmerman/The Texas Tribune, ... These legal fights, which can escalate all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, ...

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from ending birthright citizenship for the children of parents who are in the U.S. illegally.

Trump has racked up a nearly unbroken string of Supreme Court wins on emergency appeals. Justice Kagan said the court should explain those decisions.