LINCOLN — Nebraska this week joined a group of 21 other Republican-led states in seeking to file a brief in support of President Donald Trump's executive order offering a buyout to federal employees. The move comes on the heels of Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers last week joining in friend-of-the-court briefs in defense of Trump's executive order to end birthright citizenship in federal cases filed in Washington, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire.

A federal judge in Seattle, a President Ronald Reagan appointee, called it "blatantly unconstitutional" and entered a preliminary injunction. Two other federal judges since have followed suit, temporarily blocking it from going into effect. In the latest case over Trump's so-called "Fork Directive" to federal employees, Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen, who led the group of states that include Nebraska, is asking a federal judge in Massachusetts to deny the American Federation of Government Employees AFL-CIO's motion for a temporary restraining order in the case against Charles Ezell, acting director of the Office of Personnel Management.

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