‘Slipping into the clutches of an authoritarian’: Trump’s potential defiance of Supreme Court could lead to a full-blown constitutional crisis

President Donald Trump speaks with reporters in the Oval Office at the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

President Donald Trump speaks with reporters in the Oval Office at the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

A panel of three federal appeals court judges in Massachusetts have declined to grant Donald Trump’s request to undo the pause previously placed on enforcing the president’s executive order revoking birthright citizenship.

As Law&Crime has previously reported, U.S. District Judge Leo T. Sorokin last month joined several other federal judges — appointed by presidents from both sides of the political aisle — who have issued nationwide preliminary injunctions on the controversial measure that would potentially upend more than a century of legal precedent. In a subsequent three-page order, Sorokin declined to stay his injunction. Lawyers for Trump sought a stay of the injunction pending appeal, arguing that since citizenship is “an individual right,” states have “no ability to assert” individual-rights claims of citizenship of their residents against the federal government.

On Tuesday, three circuit judges for the First U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals determined that Trump’s arguments didn’t hold up, and declined to stay Sorokin’s order.

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