In the few days since he returned to the White House, President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive orders and mass pardons have shattered political and legal norms. But one order is in a category of its own.

In a Washington state federal court Thursday a judge called President Trump's executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship for undocumented migrants "blatantly unconstitutional," temporarily blocking it . On Capitol Hill, the president's allies introduced a bill to make it law.

The Trump administration is "twisting itself in knots" in trying to limit birthright citizenship and focus on deportations, argues New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin.