A cornerstone of President Donald Trump’s bid to reshape the US immigration system has run into an early roadblock: an octogenarian federal judge in Seattle.

A Seattle judge issued a 14-day restraining order in response to a lawsuit from states calling President Donald Trump’s effort unconstitutional.

A federal judge in Seattle issued a blistering rebuke to block President Donald Trump's executive order to end birthright citizenship. A lawsuit filed Tuesday in the Western District of Washington came after Trump signed an executive order that claimed a baby born in America must have at least one parent who is either a citizen or a lawful permanent resident to automatically qualify

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U.S. District Judge John Coughenour, a Ronald Reagan appointee, told the court he could not remember in his more than 40 years on the bench seeing a case so "blatantly unconstitutional."

On Thursday a federal judge in Seattle temporarily blocked President Trump's executive order to end birthright citizenship.

U.S. District Judge John Coughenour, appointed by former President Ronald Reagan, signed the temporary restraining order on Thursday to block Trump’s action. Coughenour’s decision just days after a number of states, including New Jersey, sued the Trump administration over the move.

A federal judge in Seattle has signed a temporary restraining order blocking President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship.

A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked President Trump’s executive order to end automatic citizenship for babies born on American soil, dealing the president his first setback as he attempts to upend the nation’s immigration laws and reverse decades of precedent.

The lawsuit filed in Seattle is one of at least five brought by a total of 22 states and a number of immigrant rights groups across the country.

President Trump has pledged to launch an appeal after a federal judge in Seattle issued a ruling to block his executive order, which sought to end the practice of birthright citizenship. The judge, appointed by former President Ronald Reagan,

Current laws allow almost everyone born in US to become an American citizen automatically, called 'birthright citizenship' and is based on the idea of jus soli, which means 'right of the soil' in Lati