The 2-1 ruling keeps in place a decision from U.S. District Judge John C. Coughenour in Seattle, who blocked Trump’s effort to end birthright citizenship and decried what he described as the administration’s attempt to ignore the Constitution for political gain. Coughenour was the first to block the order.

In their ruling, the panel of judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit wrote that they ‘fully agree’ with the decision of a lower-court, that blocked the order nationwide