A federal appeals court has ruled that President Donald Trump’s order seeking to end birthright citizenship is unconstitutional, affirming a lower-court decision that blocked its enforcement nationwide.

Trump’s executive order is invalid “because it contradicts the plain language of the Fourteenth Amendment’s grant of citizenship,” Judge Ronald Gould wrote for a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

A federal appeals court ruled on Wednesday that U.S. President Donald Trump's executive order curtailing automatic birthright citizenship is unconstitutional and blocked its enforcement nationwide. The 2-1 decision by the San Francisco-based 9th U.

The U.S. Department of Justice previously filed a motion to join a lawsuit against the "anti-Catholic" measure.

The State arguably could have chosen a less restrictive means of advancing its interest in protecting children from abuse and neglect by adding members of the clergy to the list of mandated