Istanbul - U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman on Wednesday issued a nationwide temporary suspension of President Donald Trump's executive order on citizenship by birth.
The ruling suspends Trump's executive order that stripped birthright citizenship from children born in the U.S. to undocumented or temporary immigrant parents.
Boardman ruled that the order violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and ran counter to more than a century of binding Supreme Court precedent, as well as the country's 250-year history of birthright citizenship.
Unlike the temporary restraining order issued Jan. 23 by Judge John Coughenour of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, which was set to expire this week, Boardman's restraining order will remain in effect until the lawsuit is resolved or a higher court overturns the ruling.
Some observers expect the issue to eventually be heard at the US Supreme Court, where Trump and other Republican presidents have helped appoint a conservative majority.