A federal judge agreed Thursday to issue a new nationwide block against President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship. The ruling from US District Judge Joseph Laplante is significant because the Supreme Court last month curbed the power of lower court judges to issue nationwide injunctions,

A federal district judge has issued a nationwide preliminary injunction on the Trump administration, forbidding the enforcement of an executive order signed on President Donald Trump’s first day in office that attempted to unilaterally redefine the Birthright Citizenship clause of the Constitution’s 14th Amendment.

A federal judge in New Hampshire issued a preliminary injunction temporarily blocking President Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship. NBC News Senior Homeland Security Correspondent explains why the judge’s ruling does not defy the Supreme Court’s ruling on nationwide injunctions.