A federal judge in Seattle temporarily blocked the executive order at a hearing last week.
SEATTLE — A lawsuit was filed Friday in a Seattle federal court alleging that President Donald Trump’s executive order eliminating birthright citizenship violates the rights of three local pregnant women.
The lawsuit was filed on behalf of three women who are not U.S. citizens by the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project. It is a class-action complaint that includes President Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and other federal officials as defendants.
Trump’s order, titled “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship” would require that a newborn have one parent
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