President Trump’s torrent of executive actions has spurred a flood of legal challenges seeking to thwart the president’s efforts to reshape U.S. policy in his first days back in the White House.

From Seattle to Boston and Concord, N.H., to Washington, D.C., judges have scheduled hearings in courtrooms across the country for the coming days where they will confront the first major legal battles of the new administration.

The sweeping actions span immigration, gender protections and the functions of the federal bureaucracy. Here’s where the legal challenges stand.

Birthright citizenship

Trump’s effort to restrict birthright citizenship could set up a major clash at the Supreme Court.

The high court has long interpreted the 14th Amendment to extend citizenship to all people born on U.S. soil with few exceptions, but Trump is making a push to prevent that guarantee from extending to children born to parents without legal status.

Trump’s Justice Department has insisted the president’s order is consistent with those precedents, latching onto how the Amendment only applies to people “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States.

The order has been met with at least seven separate lawsuits, which all claim it violates the amendment or federal immigration law.

U.S. District Judge John Coughenour, a Reagan appointee who oversees one of the cases, called Trump’s action a “blatantly unconstitutional order” as the judge temporarily blocked it at a hearing last week.

Coughenour’s order is only temporary. Next week, hearings will continue.

A federal judge in Greenbelt, Md., will hear from CASA Inc. on Wednesday. The following day, Coughenor will hold another hearing in Seattle in the suit brought by four Democratic state attorneys general.

The day after that, a judge in Boston will hear two separate challenges being brought by 18 other Democratic-led........

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