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BREAKING NEWS Trump on a collision course with the Supreme Court after major ruling on plan to end birthright citizenshipPresident Donald Trump's move to end birthright citizenship nationwide as part of his hardline crackdown on immigration and illegal border crossings suffered a setback on Wednesday.The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals let stand an order blocking Trump from curtailing automatic birthright citizenship despite the Trump administration's request to halt the nationwide injunction.Seattle-based U.S. District Judge John Coughenour had issues the injunction halting the president's executive order - which Trump signed on his first day back in the White House on January 20.It directed U.S. agencies to refuse to recognize the citizenship of children born in the United States if neither their mother nor father was a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident.Coughenour had declared that the policy unconstitutional, but the Trump administration claimed he went too far by issuing a nationwide injunction at the behest of four Democratic-led states.On Wednesday, the three-judge panel ruled that the Trump administration had 'not made a "strong showing that [they are] likely to succeed on the merits of this appeal."'U.S. Circuit Judge Danielle Forrest, who Trump appointed during his first term, in a concurring opinion said a rapid ruling would risk eroding public confidence in judges who must 'reach their decisions apart from ideology or political preference.''Nor do the circumstances themselves demonstrate an obvious emergency where it appears that the exception to birthright citizenship urged by the Government has never been recognized by the judiciary,' she wrote.