An appeals court on Wednesday let stand an order blocking President Donald Trump from curtailing automatic birthright citizenship nationwide as part of the Republican’s hardline crackdown on immigration and illegal border crossings.. appeals An court upheld a ruling that prevented President Donald Trump from reducing automatic birthright citizenship across the country as part of the Republican Party’s strict immigration and illegal border crossing policies.

The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the Trump administration’s request for an emergency order putting on hold a nationwide injunction issued by a federal judge in Seattle blocking the president’s executive order.

It was the first time an appellate court had weighed in on Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship, whose fate may ultimately be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court. Judges in Maryland, Massachusetts and New Hampshire have likewise blocked it, and appeals are underway already in two of those cases.

Trump’s order, signed on his first day back in the White House on Jan. 20, directed U.S. agencies to refuse to recognize the citizenship of children born in the United States after Wednesday if neither their mother nor father was a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident.