The Supreme Court will hear oral debate next month in an incident where President Donald Trump challenges his attempt to end his birthright citizenship, likely one of the most anticipated and most anticipated cases to be reviewed by the High Court since Trump took office.
The judge said Thursday that he would hear debate about the combined incident on May 15th, about four weeks later, on May 15th.
In March, the Trump administration called on the Supreme Court to intervene and allow a narrow version of the president's executive order that ends citizenship from birth. Trump signed the order on his first day in office and soon met a surge in lawsuits across the country.
The administration's appeal relate to three national injunctions brought in Maryland, Massachusetts and Washington.
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Supreme Court Judges Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Brett M. Kavanaugh, Amy Connie Barrett, Judges John Robertt, Judges Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor will attend the inauguration ceremony on January 20, 2025 at the U.S. Capitol. (Washington Post via Ricky Carioti/Getty Images)
All three states had issued nationwide injunctions blocking enforcement of a birthright citizenship ban. This was a very broad move that Trump administration lawyers argued in their Supreme Court applications.
Our representative, General Sarah Harris, asked the judge to limit the scope of the award to cover only individuals who have been directly affected by the relevant courts.
“These cases involve challenges to the President's executive order on the president's natural citizenship — raise important constitutional issues with great influence in securing borders,” Harris wrote in his appeal.
To date, although multiple district courts have been prevented from becoming effective, no court has sided with the Trump administration's executive order seeking to ban birthright citizenship.
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The Supreme Court judge will attend a union speech by President Joe Biden on March 7, 2024 at the Capitol. (Shawn Thew-Pool/Getty Images)
The implementation of Trump's executive order was originally set for February 19th. This policy would have affected hundreds of thousands of children born in the United States each year.
The order sought to reinterpret the 14th amendment, which states that “all people born or naturalized in the United States, and all those subject to their jurisdiction are citizens of the United States and the state in which they reside.”
Under the Trump administration's proposed interpretation, children later blocked by federal courts and born on illegal immigrants or temporary non-immigrant visas are not citizens by birthright.
More than 22 US states and immigration rights groups immediately sued the Trump administration to stop a change in natural citizenship, claiming in court applications the executive order was unconstitutional and “unprecedented.”
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The state also claims that the 14th Amendment actually creates a guarantee of citizenship to those born in the United States.
The United States is one of approximately 30 countries where birthright citizenship applies.
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