A group of Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee, led by chair Jim Jordan of Ohio, are part of an amicus brief supporting President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship.

U.S. District Judge John C. Coughenour, a Ronald Reagan appointee for the Western District of Washington state, on Jan. 23 temporary blocked Trump’s order following one of eight lawsuits filed by 22 Democrat state attorneys general and a number of immigrant rights groups across the country.

The lawsuits argue the Constitution’s 14th Amendment guarantees citizenship for people born and naturalized in the U.S., although the amendment does state “subject to the jurisdiction thereof,” and it likely will be up to the courts to decide that issue, unless Congress codifies Trump’s order.

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