A federal judge used an exception to overcome the Supreme Court's recent ruling that restricted the ability of judges to block this and other policies nationwide.

Trump’s executive order, signed in January, seeks to deny citizenship to children who are born to people who are living in the U.S. illegally or temporarily. It is part of the hard-line immigration agenda of the president, who has called birthright citizenship a “magnet for illegal immigration.”

The American Civil Liberties Union sued June 27 after the Supreme Court backed President Trump’s request to scale back nationwide injunctions from lower courts.