SEATTLE — A lawsuit filed Friday in a Seattle federal court alleged President Donald Trump's executive order eliminating birthright citizenship violates the rights of three local pregnant women.

A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order blocking President Trump's executive order to redefine birthright citizenship.

SEATTLE: A federal judge in Seattle has blocked an executive order by President Donald Trump aimed at restricting automatic birthright citizenship in the United States, describing it as

Judge John Coughenour was blistering in his criticism of President Donald Trump's order to end birthright citizenship, calling it "blatantly unconstitutional."

Parts of Seattle are expected to come to a halt Saturday as demonstrators take to the streets ahead of President-elect Trump's inauguration on Monday.

A suburban Seattle police officer was sentenced Thursday to over 16 years in prison for the 2019 shooting death of a homeless man he was trying to arrest for disorderly conduct, marking the first ...

U.S. District Court Judge John Coughenour’s ruling in the case brought by Washington and three other states is the first in what is sure to be a long legal fight over the order’s constitutionality.

Legal experts said the president’s executive order would upend precedent and is unlikely to pass constitutional muster.

The lawsuit filed in Seattle has been progressing the fastest of the five cases brought over the executive order.

On Jan. 23, 2025, in a suit filed in the U.S. District Court in Seattle by the attorneys-general of Washington State, Arizona, Illinois, and Oregon

A federal judge in Seattle blocked, temporarily, President Donald Trump’s attempt to rescind birthright citizenship — the idea spelled out in the Constitution that every person born in the United States is an American citizen.

Judge John Coughenour calls the executive order “blatantly unconstitutional” before issuing a temporary restraining order