U.S. District Judge Leo Sorokin pressed the government about long-standing U.S. Supreme Court precedent that the 14th Amendment ensures citizenship for anyone born in the United States.

A federal judge in Boston said on Friday he would take under advisement a request from 18 state attorneys general to block President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship for the children of parents who are in the U.

The nationwide injunction, from a Maryland case, is more permanent than last month’s restraining order from a judge in Seattle.

A second judge has blocked the president's order to end citizenship for children born on American soil to parents without legal status

A federal judge blocked Trump’s order ending birthright citizenship for children of parents in the U.S. illegally, calling it a bid to ignore the Constitution for political gain.

U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman issued the injunction at a hearing on a lawsuit brought by civil rights groups arguing that Trump’s order is unconstitutional.

Calling birthright citizenship “an unequivocal constitutional right,” a federal judge on Thursday blocked the Trump administration from implementing its plan to deny that to children born