A federal appeals court stopped cold President Donald Trump’s controversial plan to end birthright citizenship in a ruling likely to set up a Supreme Court face-off.
The ruling handed down by the San Francisco-based Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals late Wednesday rejected the Justice Department’s request to lift a Seattle judge’s nationwide injunction blocking Trump’s executive order tossing out the Constitution's 14th Amendment, CNN reported.
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The Wednesday ruling, an early legal blow to Trump’s political agenda, concluded that the order declining to allow the executive action from taking effect could stand in place.
It was the first time an appeals court weighed in on Trump’s promise to end birthright citizenship in the country, Reuters said.
The appellate panel, which consisted of one Trump appointee, a Jimmy Carter appointee and an appointee of George W. Bush, said that the court would move forward with a closer review of the case, CNN reported.
