Court blocks Trump from restoring birthright citizenship ban A United States Appeal Court has rejected an emergency request from President Donald Trump to vacate a ruling blocking his birthright citizenship order as part of the Republican’s hardline crackdown on immigration and illegal border crossings. According to AFP, the San Francisco-based 9th US Circuit Court of Appeal rejected the request for an emergency order putting on hold an injunction issued by a federal judge in Seattle blocking the president’s directive. Trump issued an executive order on January 20 – the day he assumed...