"The government has cloaked what is effectively a constitutional amendment under the guise of an executive order," the judge said.

NBC News' Julia Ainsley reports that a federal judge in Seattle has issued a temporary restraining order blocking President Trump’s executive order that seeks to limit birthright citizenship from taking effect.

A second federal judge on Wednesday blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order that seeks to end birthright citizenship, saying it’s likely unconstitutional and “runs counter to our nation’s 250-year history of citizenship by birth.