Attorneys representing the Trump administration had asked the circuit court to overturn the block placed by U.S. District Judge Leo Sorokin in Massachusetts, arguing that New Jersey and the other states and organizations that sued didn't have the legal right, or standing, to bring the lawsuit in the first place.

The court concluded that the executive order, which sought to alter birthright citizenship provisions, likely violated the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Consequen

Today, the First Circuit Court of Appeals declined to grant the Trump Administration's request to lift a nationwide injunction that has blocked Donald Trump's executive order redefining birthright citizenship from going into effect.