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Trump signed two orders narrowing birthright citizenship. Will a federal judge block either one before Aug 13?

On August 15, 2026, this question resolved NO.

64% of users predicted YES โ€” the community missed this one. 25 predictions cast.

President Trump signed two executive orders on August 6, 2026 that further narrowed birthright citizenship, targeting so-called "birth tourism" and denying citizenship to children born to an "alien enemy," a foreign government employee, or a parent who obtained citizenship through a commercial transaction. The move followed the Supreme Court's June 30, 2026 ruling that struck down Trump's original 2025 birthright-citizenship order as unconstitutional under the 14th Amendment. On August 11, the ACLU and allied civil rights groups filed papers with U.S. District Judge Joseph LaPlante in Concord, New Hampshire, asking him to block the new orders, or at minimum clarify that his earlier nationwide injunction still covers affected children, before the orders take effect September 6. As of the question's August 13 deadline, LaPlante had not issued a ruling; the request remained pending and neither new order had been judicially blocked. Community forecasters put 64% odds on a judge blocking one of the orders in time, but no such ruling came before the deadline, so the community's majority prediction did not hold.

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