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Hey there, happy Friday. From the KUOW Newsroom, this is Seattle now. I'm Patricia Murphy with a roundup of today's

top stories. It's June 27th. President Donald Trump has criticized federal judges for blocking

his executive orders. Now, a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court has curtailed the power of those judges.

Amy Radle has more.

Washington was one of the states challenging President Trump's order to eliminate

birthright citizenship. A federal judge in Seattle called the order unconstitutional and

granted a nationwide injunction placing it on hold. Now the U.S. Supreme Court has reined in

those injunctions. Lisa Mannheim is a law professor

at the University of Washington. What this decision today does is it makes it much more difficult

for courts to be able to use these sorts of injunctions. What today's opinion says is that

courts can only issue these sorts of injunctions under certain narrow circumstances.

Attorney General Nick Brown says now his office must show that Washington State would be harmed

if birthright citizenship is eliminated elsewhere, and he's prepared to do that.

Otherwise, in states that haven't sued, the order could take effect in 30 days.

Amy Radle, KUOW News.

Republican Congressman Dan Newhouse from central Washington is rejecting a plan to sell millions of acres of federally owned public lands. Politico reports he

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