San Francisco, July 24 -- A US federal appeals court ruled today that President Donald Trump's executive order of curtailing birthright citizenship is unconstitutional.
A panel of judges on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals wrote that Trump's order is "invalid because it contradicts the plain language of the Fourteenth Amendment's grant of citizenship to 'all persons born in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof."
The policy, which has been the subject of a months long legal back-and-forth, is currently on hold.
But today's decision appears to mark the first time that an appellate court has weighed in on the merits of Trump's attempt to end birthright citizenship for many children of undocumented immigrants by exe...