The federal courthouse in Seattle has ruled for a temporary halt on US president Donald Trump’s bid to end birthright citizenship.
The judge had ordered an injunction and the hearing ended.
The ruling lasted just Twenty-five minutes.
Things did not go well for Trump’s lawyers during the brief hearing in Seattle, where four states asked a judge to immediately block Trump’s attempt to deny the right to birthright citizenship to children born to undocumented migrants and people in the US temporarily.
Just as Justice Department lawyer Brett Shumate began his arguments on the validity of the order, Judge John Coughenour cut in, asking him point blank: “Is this order constitutional?”
The judge again interrupted as Shumate began to respond, saying: “This is a blatantly unconstitutional order.”
“We look back in history and say ‘where were the judges, where were the lawyers?’”, the judge continued. “Frankly I have difficulty finding that a member of the bar can state confidently that this is a constitutional order.”
The “bar” refers to the American legal professional institution.
