The Supreme Court May Rule for Trump on Nationwide Injunctions but Probably Not on Birthright Citizenship
The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Thursday in a consolidated case arising from President Donald Trump’s executive order purporting to strip birthright citizenship from millions of U.S.-born children. However, the central issue before the Court was not the legality of Trump’s order; rather, the issue was whether federal district judges may issue nationwide injunctions that entirely block such orders from going into effect. Still, there was some discussion among the justices about the legality of Trump’s underlying order, and that discussion was probably not reassuring for Trump.
The most forceful critic of Trump’s position was Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who told Solicitor General John Sauer that Trump’s claim that birthright citizenship should be denied to the U.S.-born children of both undocumented immigrants and temporary lawful visitors ran counter to both “the plain meaning” of the Constitution and over a century’s worth of Supreme Court decisions. “As far as I se
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