A federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump’s order to end a birthright citizenship across the US.

Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office just over two weeks ago, and he’s certainly wasted no time in getting his policies across and into writing.

The 47th POTUS has signed off on numerous executive orders, which included halting the ban of TikTok, changing laws on immigration, and declaring that there are ‘only two genders’.

And over the past few days, we’ve even got the threat of a trade war and the creation of the very first US wealth fund.

Another one of Trump’s executive orders aimed at ending birthright citizenship, though a federal judge in Maryland has since issued a nationwide preliminary injunction against it.

Donald Trump’s executive order has been blocked (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

On Wednesday (February 5), District Judge Deborah Boardman heard arguments from five women hoping to block Trump’s executive order, and the judge has sided with them.

“The denial of the precious right to citizenship will cause irreparable harm,” Judge Boardman as she handed down her order.

“It has been said the right to U.S. citizenship is a right no less precious than life or liberty. If the court does not enjoin enforcement of the executive order, children subject to the order will be denied the rights and benefits of US citizenship and their parents will face instability.”

The judge added: “A nationwide injunction is appropriate and necessary because it concerns citizenship.”

In her ruling delivered on Wednesday (February 5), the judge concluded Trump’s executive order “conflicts with the plain language of the 14th Amendment.”

“The U.S. Supreme court has resoundingly rejected the president’s interpretation of the citizenship clause,” Judge Boardman added.

“In fact, no court has endorsed the president’s interpretation, and this court will not be the first.”

A federal judge made the ruling on Wednesday (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Meanwhile, the plaintiffs’ attorney Joseph Mead added: “The executive order’s departure from settled law is so abrupt … it is such a departure from what we’ve been doing for over a century. Being a citizen is the foundation for so many rights.”

While the Department of Justice argued for the executive order to make its way through into law.

“Text, history, and precedent support what common sense compels: the Constitution does not harbor a windfall clause granting American citizenship to, inter alia: the children of those who have circumvented (or outright defied) federal immigration laws,” they argued, as per ABC News.

Before today’s ruling, Trump’s executive order had already been put on hold by US District Judge John Coughenour in Seattle.

Canada and Mexico have responded after President Donald Trump imposed huge tariffs, with Canadian PM Justin Trudeau warning his actions will have ‘real consequences for the American people’.

President Trump has been back in The White House for nearly two weeks, and he’s made a ton of amendments to the way the US is run in that short space of time.

Heck, Trump broke records for the number of executive orders signed on his first day as president, with changes to passports and immigration among some of his first moves.

The Trump administration has also imposed higher tariff imports on countries like China, Canada and Mexico, with import tariffs at 25 percent for Mexico and Canada, while there’s ten percent tariffs on goods from China.

As you can imagine, the new changes haven’t gone down well with Canadian, Mexican and Chinese officials.

Donald Trump has introduced many executive orders (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Speaking shorty before the hiked tariffs were detailed on Saturday (February 1), Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said: “We’re ready with a response, a purposeful, forceful but reasonable, immediate response.”

And during a press briefing on Friday (January 31st), Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said: “We have Plan A, Plan B, Plan C, depending on what the government of the United States decides.

“It is very important for the people of Mexico to know that we will always defend the dignity of our people, that we will always defend respect for our sovereignty, and engage in dialogue as equals, as we have always stated, without subordination.”

Both the Canadian and Mexican president announced counter-tariffs on Saturday evening as a direct response to Trump’s executive order.

The Canadian prime minister has hit back (DAVE CHAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Canada is imposing 25 percent tariffs on CA $155 billion of US goods.

Trudeau said: “It will have real consequences for you, the American people.”

Speaking in an address on Saturday, the Canadian prime minister added: “The actions taken by the White House split us apart instead of bringing us together.”

Meanwhile, Sheinbaum revealed in a post on Twitter that she’s ordered her economic minister to implement measures to protect Mexico’s best interests.

Claudia Sheinbaum is taking measures too (ALFREDO ESTRELLA/AFP via Getty Images)

“We categorically reject the White House’s slander that the Mexican government has alliances with criminal organisations, as well as any intention of meddling in our territory,” Mexico’s president wrote.

“If the United States government and its agencies wanted to address the serious fentanyl consumption in their country, they could fight the sale of drugs on the streets of their major cities, which they don’t do, and the laundering of money that this illegal activity generates that has done so much harm to its population.”

President of Mexico Claudia Sheinbaum has proposed a ‘nice’ name for the United States in rebuttal of Donald Trump’s changing of the Gulf’s title.

Within the first 24 hours of being sworn in as the President of the United States for the second time, Donald Trump wasted no time signing off on multiple executive orders including one about ‘restoring names that honor American greatness’ including changing the Gulf of Mexico’s name to ‘Gulf of America’.

The order saw Google comply with the name change, however, it’s been met with continued backlash from Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum.

The order suggested the Gulf of Mexico be renamed as ‘Gulf of America’ noting the area as being ‘an integral asset to our once burgeoning Nation and has remained an indelible part of America’ and ‘a crucial artery for America’s early trade and global commerce’.

Reflecting on its ‘remarkable body of water’ alongside ‘natural resources and wildlife’ and how it ‘will continue to play a pivotal role in shaping America’s future and the global economy,’ Trump resolved he would be ‘directing’ the Gulf be ‘officially renamed’ the Gulf of America.

Google revealed it would be abiding by Trump’s order to change the name although, the name you see upon searching depends on where you are in the world with ‘Maps users see their official local name’ and ‘everyone in the rest of the world sees both names’.

Sheinbaum responded to the executive order noting Trump can call the Gulf whatever he likes but for Mexico and ‘for the entire world’ it would always be known as the ‘Gulf of Mexico’.

Google agreed to the change (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)

And at a news conference on Wednesday (January 29), she jokingly suggested the United States be renamed ‘Mexican America’.

Standing in front of a map of North and South America from 1607 and pointing to areas which are now known as part of the US, the Mexican president said: “The United Nations recognizes the name Gulf of Mexico, but next, why don’t we call it Mexican America? It sounds nice doesn’t it?

“Since 1607, the constitution of Apatzingan was Mexican America. So, let’s call it Mexican Americana?”

President Claudia Sheinbaum made a suggestion of her own (ALFREDO ESTRELLA/AFP via Getty Images)

In a letter to Google about its agreement to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico, Sheinbaum argued, as quoted by USA Today: “If a country wants to change the designation of something in the sea, it would only apply up to 12 nautical miles. It cannot apply to the rest, in this case, the Gulf of Mexico. This is what we explained in detail to Google.”

Going back to her joke about suggesting the US be renamed ‘Mexican America’ Sheinbaum reportedly added to Google: “We ask that when you put Mexican America in the search engine, the map appears that we presented.”

President Donald Trump has been vowing to ‘make America great again’ for the last decade, and one of his answers for doing that is bringing in more aggressive tariffs.

The 78-year-old spoke at the House GOP retreat at his golf club, the Trump National Doral, in Miami, Florida, where he revealed his plans to make the US ‘more powerful than ever before’, and it has left people shocked.

“America is going to be very rich again, and it’s going to happen very quickly. It’s time for the United States to return to the system that made us richer and more powerful than ever before,” President Trump said, just one week on from his inauguration.

“Do you know the United States, in 1870 to 1913, all tariffs – and that was the richest period in the history of the United States, relatively speaking, in other words, relatively – and they set up the great Tariff Commission of 1887.

“And this commission had one function – what to do with all the money that we took in. It was so enormous that they had no idea, it was a blue ribbon committee was set up 1887.”

There’s a lot of talk being said about tariffs, so let’s clear up what they are – they are taxes imposed on foreign goods, meaning many of these goods will cost more to sell in the US.

While Trump has vowed to end federal income taxes, it doesn’t mean residents will get away Scot-free. What is likely to happen is that prices will go up on foreign-made goods, meaning the consumer will pay more.

(The White House)

Advanced countries fell out of favor with tariffs following World War II, because they often lead to ‘reduced trade, higher prices for consumers, and retaliation from abroad’, the Council on Foreign Relations reports.

A tariff is a tax imposed on foreign-made goods, paid by the importing business to its home country’s government.

Back to Trump’s speech…

The president continued: “And what to do with all of the money that we had. And again, Teddy Roosevelt [26th POTUS] was a beneficiary, because when [William] McKinley [25th POTUS] was killed, he took over this vast sum of money, and he did all of those national parks and all of the other things.

“And I’m not knocking him, but he was given a vast amount of money, and that was all made through tariffs, as we had no income tax. The income tax came in in 1913.

President Trump has vowed to impose more aggressive tariffs on foreign goods ((Melina Mara-Pool/Getty Images)

“As I said in my speech last week, instead of taxing our citizens to enrich foreign nations, we should be tariffing and taxing foreign nations to enrich our citizens. Does that make sense? Right?”

In short, this means Trump has plans to impose tariffs on foreign goods.

After a snippet of his speech was uploaded to Twitter, US citizens were left shocked at the suggested move.

“Wow,” typed one person simply, as another commented: “Not a huge fan of him but reducing or completely canceling the income tax would make a huge difference to us.”

And a third added: “American citizens shouldn’t pay, we should tariff all of other countries who have used our economy as a piggy bank.”