GREENBELT, Md. — A national justice Wednesday furthered a artifact of President Trump’s enforcement bid preventing the children of migrants without ineligible presumption from receiving birthright citizenship. 

U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman astatine the decision of a proceeding successful Greenbelt said Trump’s bid “runs antagonistic to our nation’s 250-year past of citizenship by birth” and apt violates an 1898 Supreme Court determination connected the issue. 

“The United States Supreme Court has resoundingly rejected the president’s mentation of the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment,” Boardman said. “In fact, nary tribunal successful the state has ever endorsed the president's interpretation. This tribunal volition not beryllium the first.” 

A abstracted national justice successful Seattle previously enactment Trump’s enforcement bid connected hold. But that ruling will expire Thursday, erstwhile that justice volition clasp different hearing. 

Boardman’s ruling, unless overturned by an appeals court, volition stay intact until she tin contented a last ruling connected the merits of the plaintiffs’ law claims, which is apt to instrumentality months.

Trump connected his archetypal time successful office signed the enforcement bid narrowing birthright citizenship so that it doesn’t widen to children calved connected U.S. ungraded to parents without imperishable ineligible status, opening with babies calved Feb. 19. It is portion of a flurry of migration actions Trump has taken during his archetypal fewer weeks successful office. 

Eric Hamilton, lawman adjunct lawyer wide for the civilian division, insisted astatine the proceeding that the Trump administration’s presumption aligned with the 1898 Supreme Court precedent cardinal to the case, United States v. Wong Kim Ark. 

“We person not taken a presumption that Wong Kim Ark is atrocious law. We deliberation it is accordant with the regularisation that we person laid retired for the Citizenship Clause,” Hamilton said. 

But Boardman rejected that conception and said a ruling blocking Trump’s bid nationwide was indispensable to support the nationalist interest. 

“Today, virtually each babe calved connected U.S. ungraded is simply a national upon birth. That is the instrumentality and contented of our country. That instrumentality and contented volition stay the presumption quo pending the solution of this case,” said Boardman, an appointee of erstwhile President Biden. 

“The authorities volition not beryllium harmed by a preliminary injunction that prevents it from enforcing an enforcement bid apt to beryllium recovered unconstitutional,” she added. 

Wednesday’s proceeding successful Maryland is the archetypal successful a blitz of hearings acceptable to instrumentality spot crossed the state implicit the adjacent week successful astir of the 9 lawsuits challenging Trump’s birthright citizenship order. 

The lawsuit successful Maryland was brought by 2 migrant rights organizations and 5 anonymous expecting mothers without imperishable ineligible status. The different cases impact 22 Democratic authorities attorneys general, the American Civil Liberties Union and Santa Clara County, Calif., among different groups. 

The challengers stress that the courts person lone recognized fewer exceptions to the 14th Amendment’s birthright citizenship warrant for each radical calved connected U.S. soil: children of diplomats, radical calved connected overseas ships, children of enemies successful hostile concern and Native American people members. 

“Generations of children person grown up with that promise,” Joseph Mead, peculiar litigation counsel astatine Georgetown Law’s Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection, which is representing the Maryland challengers, said astatine Wednesday’s hearing. 

Updated astatine 11:45 a.m. EST