President Donald Trump's crackdown on asylum-seekers was dealt a major blow on Wednesday when U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss ruled that the administration had vastly overstepped its legal authority with an executive order issued on the first day of his second term.

A recent Supreme Court ruling could allow President Trump’s order ending birthright citizenship to go into effect in some states. Abbie VanSickle, a reporter covering the United States Supreme Court for The New York Times,

The Supreme Court 'could have simply decided that the 14th Amendment's clear mandate that "all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States" meant exactly what it said,