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A federal judge in Washington state blocked Trump’s birthright-citizenship order with a nationwide preliminary injunction, dealing the administration a sharp early setback. The ruling put a hard brake on one of Trump’s most aggressive immigration moves and signaled that the White House had raced ahead of the Constitution and the courts.
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A federal judge in Washington state blocked Trump’s birthright-citizenship order with a nationwide preliminary injunction, dealing the administration a sharp early setback. The ruling put a hard brake on one of Trump’s most aggressive immigration moves and signaled that the White House had raced ahead of the Constitution and the courts.
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