A federal judge in New Hampshire, Joseph Laplante, has temporarily halted President Donald Trump's executive order restricting birthright citizenship.This comes after the US Supreme Court's recent ruling limiting individual judges' ability to issue nationwide injunctions.

Judge Laplante granted class-action status to all children who would be denied citizenship under Trump's order, effectively issuing a preliminary nationwide injunction. The judge has paused his ruling for seven days to allow the Trump administration to appeal.

The ACLU, representing the plaintiffs, hailed the decision as a "huge victory" for the constitutional protection of birthright citizenship. Trump's executive order aims to deny automatic citizenship to children born in the US to undocumented immigrants or those on temporary visas, a reinterpretation of the 14th Amendment that has been challenged by many legal scholars and contradicted by a landmark 1899 Supreme Court case. The current Supreme Court, while curtailing broad injunctions, had left open the possibility of such blocks through class-action lawsuits.