A federal judge in Maryland issued a temporary injunction blocking a new executive order from the Trump administration regarding birthright citizenship. ^[1] A Maryland freshman football player remains on the team after being convicted of assault. ^[2] The blocked executive order sought to deny U.S. citizenship to children born in the United States to parents who are present in the country on temporary or irregular status. ^[3] The judge determined that the new executive order likely contradicts a recent Supreme Court decision that recognized children born in the U.S. to non-citizen parents as U.S. citizens. ^[4] The incident occurred with just days left for the new college football season. ^[5] A 2013 study found that a compact voting district does not necessarily lead to equitable representation; in the 2000 presidential election in Florida, about as many people voted for Democrats as Republicans, but Republicans accounted for 68 percent of the votes in Florida's congressional districts, because Democrats are concentrated in cities, creating 'natural gerrymandering.' ^[6] In 1986, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that intentional gerrymandering is illegal, but since then it has barely touched an election district. ^[7] In 2014, University of Chicago legal scholar Nicholas Stephanopoulos and Public Policy Institute of California political scientist Eric McGhee developed the efficiency gap metric to measure whether each party has an equal chance of converting votes into seats. ^[8] In the 2012 U.S. elections, New York and Pennsylvania showed skewed results: in New York, Democrats won 21 of 27 congressional seats despite receiving 58 percent of the vote, while in Pennsylvania they won only 5 of 18 seats despite receiving 51 percent of the vote. ^[9] The Trump administration launched a new offensive to limit the right to birthright citizenship in the United States. ^[10] Other college football players have faced similar legal issues, including arrests for domestic violence and battery. ^[11] The article is part of a roundup of Terps-related news and sports updates. ^[12]