A federal appeals court has denied a request by the US Justice Department to narrow a Seattle judge’s order blocking enforcement of President Donald Trump’s executive action to restrict automatic birthright citizenship.

An appeals court let stand an order blocking President Donald Trump from curtailing automatic birthright citizenship nationwide.

Even if Trump had won at the appeals court Wednesday, his birthright citizenship order would have remained on ice because federal judges in Maryland, Massachusetts and New Hampshi

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined a request from the Trump administration to pause a ruling that blocked the president's executive order to end birthright citizenship.

An appeals court ruling President Trump can’t end birthright citizenship for certain children of immigrants, setting up a potential Supreme Court showdown. Is the law the law or subject to whatever President Trump thinks on any given day?

A three-panel appeals court on Wednesday continued to block the Trump administration from ending birthright citizenship for children of immigrants, setting up a likely appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.