Utah Sen. Mike Lee challenged the ruling, questioning the constitutional basis for judicial intervention in congressional legislation.

A day after a federal judge in Massachusetts blocked the Trump administration from ending Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood, officials from Connecticut and 22 other states filed their own lawsuit to keep the clinics from losing federal dollars.

A group of more than 20 states are suing the Trump administration over efforts to cut Medicaid payments to Planned Parenthood