January 23, 2025, 3:10 pm Eastern - A federal judge in Seattle temporarily blocked the federal government from implementing Trump's birthright citizenship executive order. In a short order, Judge John Coughenour explained that Washington and the three states that joined it in the lawsuit are likely to show that the Trump administration's attempt to narrow over a century's worth of citizenship law violates the Fourteenth Amendment and the Immigration and Nationality Act. The states "face irreparable injury" if they "cannot treat birthright citizens as precisely that--citizens."
January 23, 2025, 3:10 pm Eastern - A federal judge in Seattle temporarily blocked the federal government from implementing Trump's birthright citizenship executive order. In a short order, Judge John Coughenour explained that Washington and the three states that joined it in the lawsuit are likely to show that the Trump administration's attempt to narrow over a century's worth of citizenship law violates the Fourteenth Amendment and the Immigration and Nationality Act. The states "face irreparable injury" if they "cannot treat birthright citizens as precisely that--citizens."