A federal judge blocked Donald Trump's administration on Thursday from implementing the Republican president's executive order curtailing the right to automatic birthright citizenship in the United States,

Cleveland immigration lawyer Richard Herman predicts the president's move, while unlikely to survive legal scrutiny, will still have negative impacts.

U.S. District Judge John Coughenour, a Ronald Reagan appointee, told the court he could not remember in his more than 40 years on the bench seeing a case so "blatantly unconstitutional."