The Trump administration remains adamant the plan for a federal funding freeze is still on despite legal challenges, causing even more confusion and whiplash for people in Illinois who rely on federal programs.

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul's lawsuit claims President Donald Trump's executive order is unconstitutional.

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul joined three other states Tuesday in suing President Donald Trump to stop an executive order that fails to recognize the children of immigrants without legal status as U.S. citizens.

Several states suing Donald Trump over his executive order ending birthright citizenship urged a judge to issue a preliminary injunction halting it from taking effect. The post ‘Egregiously illegal actions of the President’: States call Trump’s birthright citizenship order a ‘modern version of Dred Scott’ as they seek court-ordered injunction first appeared on Law & Crime.

The judge, an appointee of Republican former President Ronald Reagan, dealt the first legal setback to the hardline policies on immigration that are a centerpiece of Trump's second term as president.

The order has already become the subject of five lawsuits by civil rights groups and Democratic attorneys general from 22 states.

A federal court issued a temporary restraining order against a presidential order challenging birthright citizenship.

A federal judge in Washington has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's executive order aimed at modifying birthright citizenship.

A federal judge in Seattle has signed a temporary restraining order blocking President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship. U.S. District Judge John Coughenour on Thursday heard a request made by four Democratic-led states to issue a temporary restraining order against the executive order signed by Trump that purports to limit birthright citizenship -- long guaranteed by the 14th Amendment -- to people who have at least one parent who is a United States citizen or permanent resident.

A federal judge on Thursday issued a two-week restraining order ... Arizona, Illinois and Oregon — that argued that the White House executive order, which President Donald Trump signed Monday ...

It was another busy day for President Donald Trump’s administration, as he suffered a setback in a lawsuit against his birthright citizenship executive order.

The federal judge who temporarily blocked President Donald Trump 's executive order denying U.S. citizenship to the children of parents living in the county illegally is a "tough" legal expert who made lawyers appearing before him "nervous," according to an attorney and former colleague.