ACLU asks judge to block new Trump order restricting birthright citizenship
by Lucy Campbell and agency from US news | The Guardian on (#77M61)
Group says new executive order is attempt to evade supreme court's earlier ruling against the president
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and other advocacy groups have asked a federal judge to block Donald Trump from enforcing new executive orders he signed last week in his latest attempt to restrict eligibility for birthright citizenship in the US.
In a Tuesday court filing, the groups called the US president's new orders an improper attempt to evade the US supreme court's 30 June rejection of his first, more sweeping bid to deny automatic citizenship to children born to undocumented immigrants and temporary foreign residents.
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