A federal judge has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order that seeks to end the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship regardless of the parents’ immigration status.
Month: January 2025
US senators narrowly supported the appointment of Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense in a procedural vote on Thursday, 23 January. Source: European Pravda, citing Axios Details: Hegseth received the backing of 51 senators, with 49 voting against. Two moderate Republican senators, Lisa Murkowski and Susan Collins, joined Democrats in unanimously o…
Trump’s order targets a constitutional right automatically granting citizenship to anyone born in the country.
“I am having trouble understanding how a member of the bar could state unequivocally that this order is constitutional,” Judge Coughenour told a Justice Department lawyer defending Trump’s directive. “It just boggles my mind.”
Pete Hegseth cleared a procedural hurdle Thursday to advance his confirmation to lead the Defense Department for a final Senate vote, setting up a high-stakes showdown.
Senators voted 51-49 to advance Hegseth’s defense secretary bid, which has been mired in a series of controversies.
U.S. District Judge John Coughenour, a Ronald Reagan appointee, told the court he could not remember in his more than 40 years on the bench seeing a case so “blatantly unconstitutional.”
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US District Judge John Coughenour said the order ‘boggles the mind’