Deborah Boardman

Donald Trump has suffered another major legal defeat in his latest attempt at restricting birthright citizenship, and that defeat raises serious questions about whether he will respect constitutional limits on presidential power. On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman issued a preliminary injunction that blocks Trump’s newest executive order. That order sought to deny automatic U.S. citizenship to children of foreign nationals who give birth on American soil. The ruling represents yet another setback for an administration that has repeatedly tried to use executive power to accomplish what it has failed to achieve through the normal constitutional and legislative process.…