Trump 2nd term updates: Trump says USAID is run by 'radical lunatics'

President Donald Trump’s controversial executive order on birthright citizenship will face its first legal test in a Seattle courtroom on Thursday morning.

U.S. District Judge John Coughenour scheduled a 10 a.m. hearing on Thursday to consider a request made by four states to issue a temporary restraining order against Trump’s executive order.

Earlier Tuesday, the attorneys generals of Arizona, Oregon, Washington and Illinois sued Trump over the order, which they said would disenfranchise more than 150,000 newborn children each year.

They described Trump's executive order as the modern equivalent of the Supreme Court's infamous Dred Scott decision. The 14th Amendment repudiated Scott establishing what the plaintiffs called a "bright-line and nearly universal rule" that Trump now seeks to violate.

"President Trump and the federal government now seek to impose a modern version of Dred Scott. But nothing in the Constitution grants the President, federal agencies, or anyone else authority to impose conditions on the grant of citizenship to individuals born in the United States," their emergency motion said.

Coughenour -- who was nominated to the bench by former President Ronald Reagan -- will likely be the first judge to weigh in on Trump’s executive order.

-ABC News' Laura Romero and Peter Charalambous

All federal employees working on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) programs and initiatives must be put on paid administrative leave by Wednesday at 5 p.m., according to an Office of Personnel Management memo obtained by ABC News.

The decision comes as the Trump administration shuts down the relevant DEI offices and programs across the federal government.

The directive follows President Donald Trump's signing of executive orders Monday to dismantle federal DEI programs, as part of Trump’s larger campaign vow to reverse and upend the diversity efforts across the country, in the public and private sectors.

-ABC News' Ben Siegel

The Washington, D.C., Police Union, which represents officers from the Metropolitan Police Department expressed "dismay" over the recent pardons granted to those who violently attacked police officers at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

"As an organization that represents the interests of the 3,000 brave men and women who put their lives on the line every day to protect our communities, our stance is clear – anyone who assaults a law enforcement officer should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, without exception," the union said in a statement.

"We remain steadfast in our mission to protect the rights and interests of all police officers and to ensure that justice is applied fairly and consistently," the statement continued.

-ABC News' Luke Barr

President Donald Trump is set to meet with a group of moderate House Republicans on Wednesday afternoon at the White House, multiple sources told ABC News.

Some of the members who will attend include Nebraska Rep. Don Baco and New York Rep. Mike Lawler, among others.

-ABC News' Katherine Faulders and Lauren Peller