U.S. President Donald Trump suffered another legal defeat on Tuesday in his effort to curtail automatic birthright citizenship nationwide, as a third federal appeals court refused to lift one of the court orders blocking the Republican's executive order.

A third appellate court has upheld a block on President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting birthright citizenship

On Tuesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit denied the Trump administration's request to stay a district court's nationwide preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of an executive order limiting birthright citizenship.