"No Executive Order by the President Can Override the Supreme Court’s Decision"

[Financial News] After SCOTUS ruled on July 6 that then-President Donald Trump’s executive order from last year restricting birthright citizenship was unconstitutional, a court has now ruled that the executive order restricting birthright citizenship that Trump signed again last month is also illegal.
The New York Times (NYT) reported on the 2nd, local time, that Deborah Boardman, a judge at the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, ruled, "No executive order by the president can override the Supreme Court’s decision."
Boardman stated that Trump’s latest order was merely the most recent attempt to curtail birthright citizenship by every means available to withstand legal scrutiny.
She continued, "Since the start of his second term on January 20, 2025, the president has sought through executive orders to overturn this country’s longstanding tradition of birthright citizenship and strip broad groups of Americans of citizenship by birth, a right set out in the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment."
Trump’s executive order this year includes provisions restricting the granting of citizenship to babies born to parents who engage in so-called birth tourism—deliberately traveling to the United States for the purpose of giving birth—but it does not explain how travelers whose purpose is to give birth would be identified.
Judge Boardman pointed out that the executive order was overly broad, including by defining everyone who engaged in a “commercial transaction,” such as purchasing an airline ticket, as having traveled to obtain birthright citizenship.
Judge Boardman emphasized that SCOTUS’s ruling upholding birthright citizenship is "the law of this country," adding, "The president must follow it."

[email protected] Lee Seok-woo, International Affairs Specialist Reporter