Given Republican control of Congress, the confirmation of Trump ultra-loyalist Pamela Bondi as his attorney general and the president’s installation of members of his personal legal team at the top of the Justice Department, the independent court system may be the last bulwark against his instinct to wield expansive power.

In total, 22 states, including Massachusetts, as well as other organizations, have sued to try to stop the birthright citizenship order.

President Donald Trump has faced several setbacks from federal courts, which have blocked or paused some of his most controversial plans since taking office

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

U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman issued the injunction at a hearing on a lawsuit brought by civil rights groups arguing that Trump’s order is unconstitutional.

The hearing comes after a federal judge in Seattle blocked the order Thursday and decried what he described as the administration’s treatment of the Constitution, saying Trump was trying to change it with an executive order.

A federal judge in Seattle on Thursday accused Donald Trump of ignoring the rule of law for political and personal gain as he declared an executive order that the Republican president signed seeking to curtail birthright citizenship to be unconstitutional.

A second federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump’s effort to end birthright citizenship, accusing the Trump administration of ignoring the Constitution for political gain. CNN’s Paula Reid reports.