Judge grants injunction in WA lawsuit against birthright citizenship order [View all]
A second federal judge in two days, this one in Seattle, has blocked President Donald Trump’s birthright citizenship order.
U.S. District Judge John Coughenour in Seattle on Thursday decried what he described as the administration’s treatment of the Constitution and said Trump was trying to change it with an executive order.
The latest proceeding came just a day after a Maryland federal judge issued a nationwide pause in a separate but similar case involving immigrants’ rights groups and pregnant women whose soon-to-born children could be affected.
“Our argument is simple and true — birthright citizenship is enshrined in the U.S. Constitution,” Washington Attorney General Nick Brown said in a statement released by his office. “The president may not care about the Constitution or the rule of law, but we do.”
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