This afternoon, a federal judge in Seattle, previously appointed by President Ronald Reagan, issued a nationwide preliminary injunction concerning the enforcement of Donald Trump's recent birthright citizenship executive order that would have stripped citizenship from Americans born in the United States to two undocumented parents.

On Thursday, the birthright citizenship issue is back before Coughenour, a Ronald Reagan appointee. During a hearing last month, he said the case stood out in his more than four decades as a federal judge. "I can’t remember another case where the question presented was as clear as this one is,” he told a Justice Department attorney.