The US Supreme Court may decide on Friday whether to permit the Trump administration to enforce an executive order denying birthright citizenship to U.S.-born children of immigrant parents.
The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Friday about President Donald Trump’s attempt to implement his executive order that denies U.S.-born children of immigrant parents the right to citizenship.
Trump’s executive order, signed on his first day in office, denied citizenship to U.S.-born children unless one parent is a citizen or resident. The order was challenged in courts, leading to multiple lower courts declaring it unconstitutional.
Three lower courts have stopped the birthright citizenship decree nationwide. To limit the court decisions that have stopped the citizenship changes from going into effect anywhere in the United States, the Trump administration filed an urgent appeal with the Supreme Court.
In the first hearing in May, the Supreme Court heard arguments on Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order, examining if lower court judges should have the authority to halt presidential directives nationwide.
At that time, lower courts’ nationwide power to block presidential orders was questioned, and judges also reviewed the birthright citizenship order’s merits, claiming it violates the 14th Amendment and Supreme Court precedent.
Today, in the Supreme Court hearing on June 26, the issue before the justices is whether to limit the authority of judges to issue nationwide injunctions, which have plagued both Republican and Democratic administrations in the past 10 years.
These nationwide court orders have emerged as an important check on Trump’s efforts and a source of mounting frustration to the Republican president and his allies.
As of now, those born in the USA are protected under the 14th Amendment of the American Constitution, which states – The Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees citizenship to all children born in the United States, regardless of race, color, or ancestry. The Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause states,” All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.