Coughenour, 84, got his law degree from the University of Iowa in 1966. He was appointed to the bench by President Ronald Reagan in 1981. He's been a federal judge for more than four decades and ...

U.S. District Judge John C. Coughenour made his criticisms while issuing a nationwide injunction on the president’s effort to curb birthright citizenship.

As Judge Coughenour explained—first from the bench, then in his temporary restraining order—this is settled law. The Supreme Court settled this in 1898. Nothing has changed since. All of the ...