A federal appeals court in Washington state focused its questioning during a hearing on Wednesday about the Trump administration’s attempt to end birthright citizenship on the language of the 14th Amendment and whether it indeed confers citizenship on anyone born on U.

The Justice Department on Wednesday pressed a federal appeals court to reverse a judge’s ruling that blocked nationwide President Donald Trump’s effort to end birthright citizenship.

Those arguments did not center on the legal merits of Trump's order, instead focusing on the issue of whether a single judge should be able to issue nationwide injunctions like th