SEATTLE,WA (AP) - A federal judge on Thursday has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's executive order ending the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship regardless of the parents' immigration status, calling it "blatantly unconstitutional".

Senior U.S. District Judge John Coughenour issued a temporary restraining order that blocked Trump's order from taking effect nationwide for 14 days while he weighs whether to issue a preliminary injunction.

The U.S. is among about 30 countries where birthright citizenship - the principle of jus soli or "right of the soil" - is applied. Most of them are in the Americas, including Canada and Mexico.

"I've been on the bench for over four decades, I can't remember another case where the question presented is as clear as this one. This is a blatantly unconstitutional order." Coughenour said.

The 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution was ratified in 1868. Its Citizenship Clause arose from one of the darkest chapters of American law, the Supreme Court's 1857 Dred Scott decision, which held that African Americans, whether enslaved or free, were not entitled to citizenship.

A key case involving birthright citizenship unfolded in 1898. Wong Kim Ark, after a trip abroad, had faced being denied reentry by the federal government on the grounds that he wasn't a citizen under the Chinese Exclusion Act. The Supreme Court held that Wong Kim Ark, who was born in San Francisco to Chinese immigrants, was a U.S. citizen because he was born in the country.
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