SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — A federal appeals court upheld a block on President Trump’s order denying citizenship to children born in the United States to immigrants. Twenty-two states had sued Trump for what they called an un-American violation of the U.S. Constitution. After a federal judge in Seattle agreed, Trump went to the higher court and with a claim there was an immediate crisis. Nonsense, wrote Judge Danielle Forrest of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Forrest reprimanded Trump for fast-tracking his appeal with a bogus claim about an emergency. Fact: Birthright citizenship is ensconced in the U.S. Constitution, adopted in 1789; confirmed by the 14th Amendment, 1866; confirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court in Plessy v. Ferguson, 1895; and confirmed again by the Supreme Court in U.S. v. Ark, 1898. Although the Ninth Circuit denied emergency consideration of the Trump appeal, it did schedule a further review in June. Meanwhile, Trump could go immediately to the U.S. Supreme Court. His argumentt is that ending birthright citizenship is :part of a broader effort to repair the United States’ immigration system and to address the ongoing crisis at the southern border.”
Forrest. Appointed to the Ninth Circuit bench by Trump in 2019. Earlier a county judge in Oregon.
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Forrest: “Deciding important substantive issues on one week’s notice turns our usual decision-making process on its head. We should not undertake this task unless the circumstances dictate that we must. They do not here.”