A federal judge agreed Thursday to issue a new nationwide block against President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship.

The ruling from US District Judge Joseph Laplante is significant because the Supreme Court last month curbed the power of lower court judges to issue nationwide injunctions, while keeping intact the ability of plaintiffs to seek a widespread block of the order through class action lawsuits, which is what happened Thursday in New Hampshire.

Ruling from the bench, Laplante granted a request from immigration rights attorneys to certify a nationwide class that “will be comprised only of those deprived of citizenship” and issued a preliminary injunction indefinitely blocking Trump’s Day One order from being enforced against born and unborn babies who would be impacted by the policy.

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          Mary Anne Trump (née MacLeod; Scottish Gaelic: Màiri Anna Nic Leòid Trump) May 10, 1912 – August 7, 2000) was a Scottish-American socialite and philanthropist, who was the wife of the real-estate developer Fred Trump and the mother of five children, including U.S. president Donald Trump.

          __Mary Anne MacLeod Trump__

          Born Màiri Anna MacLeod May 10, 1912 Tong, Lewis, Scotland

          Died August 7, 2000 (aged 88) New Hyde Park, New York, U.S. Burial place Lutheran All Faiths Cemetery, New York City Citizenship British subject United States (from 1942) Spouse Fred Trump ​ ​(m. 1936; died 1999)​

          Born a native Scottish Gaelic-speaker in the Outer Hebrides, MacLeod immigrated to the U.S. in 1930 and became a naturalized citizen in March 1942. She raised five children with her husband and lived in New York City.

          —Wikipedia