Democrats have left the state, the Republican governor and attorney general have vowed to remove them from office, and a senator has called in the F.B.I.
Judge James E. Boasberg had ruled in April that there was probable cause to believe the Trump administration had committed criminal contempt by ignoring his order. But the administration appealed.
The ruling appears to be the first time that an appellate court has ruled on birthright citizenship after a Supreme Court decision limiting the scope of injunctions sent lawyers scrambling to recast their claims in light of its new standard.
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