Appeals Court Upholds Nationwide Ban on Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order

In a 2–1 vote, judges on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court decision banning enforcement of the executive order across the United States.

The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco on June 12, 2017. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

A federal appeals court on July 23 ruled that President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship is unconstitutional, approving an earlier lower-court decision that had blocked enforcement of the order nationwide.

The three-judge panel on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals voted 2–1 in favor of upholding the district court’s decision.