A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order denying U.S. citizenship to the children of parents living in the country illegally, calling it “blatantly unconstitutional” during the first hearing in a multi-state effort challenging the order.

President Trump's executive order challenging birthright citizenship will face its first legal test in a Seattle courtroom Thursday.

A federal judge Thursday blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order outlawing birthright citizenship—the policy automatically giving citizenship to anyone born in the U.S.—and declared it “blatantly unconstitutional,

Within hours of his inauguration, President Donald Trump issued an executive order suspending the enforcement of a TikTok ban that had taken effect the previous day. The move tossed a lifeline to TikTok -- and its 170 million users in the United States.

An executive order is an instruction from the president which has the weight of the law behind it. But Trump's order does not overturn the ban. Instead it tells the US attorney general not to enforce the law for now - something experts had expected would be his first move.