THE CENTER SQUARE—A federal judge Thursday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s recent executive order ending birthright citizenship for the children of illegal immigrants.
Trump signed the executive order earlier this week, and almost immediately a coalition of nearly two dozen states filed a series of lawsuits to block the order.
“The president’s executive order attempting to rescind birthright citizenship is blatantly unconstitutional and quite frankly, un-American,” said California Attorney General Rob Bonta, one of those who joined one of the lawsuits.
U.S. District Judge John Coughenour issued the ruling, which blocks Trump’s order until a final ruling is made. Coughenour, who was appointed by then-President Ronald Reagan in 1981, blasted the ruling as unconstitutional, though.
The order could make it all the way to the U.S. Supreme…
