WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Supreme Cour t seemed intent Thursday on keeping a block on President Donald Trump’s restrictions on birthright citizenship while looking for a way to scale back nationwide court orders.

It was unclear what such a decision might look like, but a majority of the court expressed concerns about would happen if the Trump administration were allowed, even temporarily, to deny citizenship to children born to people who are in the United States illegally.

Washington Attorney General Nick Brown is leading the federal lawsuit challenging that order . Several lower courts, including one in Seattle, issued injunctions to stop the administration.

The justices heard arguments in the Trump administration’s emergency appeals over lower court orders that have kept the citi

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