U.S. District Judge John C. Coughenour made his criticisms while issuing a nationwide injunction on the president’s effort to curb birthright citizenship.

U.S. District Judge John Coughenour's move blocks the order amid a lawsuit brought by Oregon and other states.

A federal judge in Seattle blocked President Donald Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship in the United States on Thursday, the second time in as many days the federal courts have intervened.

A second federal judge in two days has blocked President Donald Trump’s effort to end birthright citizenship for the children of parents who are in the U.S. illegally, decrying what he described as the administration's attempt to ignore the

A federal judge in Seattle on Thursday indefinitely blocked President Donald Trump’s push to end birthright citizenship for children born to parents without legal immigration status, the second such ruling in as many days.

"It has become ever more apparent that, to our president, the rule of law is but an impediment to his policy goals," Senior U.S. District Judge John Coughenour said in issuing a preliminary injunction blocking President Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship.

President Trump considers the rule of law "but an impediment to his policy goals," the judge said, blasting the executive order to end birthright citizenship.

A second federal judge blocked President Trump’s executive order that would restrict birthright citizenship, harshly condemning the administration for attempting to do so at a Thursday

Thursday's ruling came in a lawsuit filed by Arizona and several other states against Trump's executive order restricting the constitutional right to birthright citizenship.

A federal judge in Seattle declared President Trump's executive order to curtail birthright citizenship unconstitutional. The ruling extends to a nationwide injunction, blocking the administration from implementing the order.

A federal judge in Seattle on Thursday accused Donald Trump of ignoring the rule of law for political and personal gain as he declared an executive order that the Republican president signed seeking to curtail birthright citizenship to be unconstitutional.