A federal judge in Boston will review a request on Friday, February 8, from 18 state attorneys general to halt President Donald Trump’s executive order, which seeks to end birthright citizenship for children born in the U.S. to parents who are in the country illegally.
This hearing follows a decision by a federal judge in Seattle on Thursday, who blocked the order and criticized the administration’s approach to the Constitution. The judge stated that Trump was attempting to amend the Constitution through executive action. The Seattle ruling, issued in a case filed by four states and an immigrant rights group, came after a Maryland federal judge imposed a nationwide pause on the order in a separate but similar lawsuit on Wednesday, February 5.
