What to know about the court cases over President Trump's birthright citizenship order
A federal judge who already questioned the constitutionality of President Donald Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order is set to hear arguments over a longer-term pause of the directive. Trump's executive order aims to end citizenship for children born to parents not legally in the country. U.S. District Judge John Coughenour in Seattle has scheduled a hearing involving lawyers from the Trump administration; four states suing to stop the order; and an immigrant rights organization, which is challenging it on behalf of a proposed class of expectant parents. The latest proceeding comes just a day after a Maryland federal judge issued a nationwide pause in a separate but similar case.
