Supreme Court to decide whether or not Trumps birthright citizenship order is unconstitutional
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to take up the constitutionality of President Donald Trump’s order on birthright citizenship declaring that children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens.The justices will hear Trump’s appeal of a lower-court ruling that struck down the citizenship restrictions.They have not taken effect anywhere in the country.The case will be argued in the spring.A definitive ruling is expected by early summer.The birthright citizenship order, which Trump signed Jan.
20, the first day of his second term, is part of his Republican administration’s broad immigration crackdown.Other actions include immigration enforcement surges in several cities and the first peacetime invocation of the 18th-century Alien Enemies Act.The administration is facing multiple court challenges, and the high court has sent mixed signals in emergency orders it has issued.
The justices effectively stopped the use of the Alien Enemies Act to rapidly deport alleged Venezuelan gang members without court hearings.But the Supreme Court allowed the resumption of sweeping immigration stops in the Los Angeles area after a lower court blocked the practice of stopping people solely based on their race, language, job or location.The justices also are weighing the administration’s emergency appeal to be allowed to deploy National Guard troops in the Chicago area for immigration enforcement actions.
A lower court has indefinitely prevented the deployment.Birthright citizenship is the first Trump immigration-related policy to reach the court for a final ruling.His order would upend more than 125 years of understanding that the Constitution’s 14th Amendment confers citizenship on everyone born on American soil, with narrow exceptions for the children of foreign diplomats and those born to a foreign occupying force.In a series of decisions, lower courts have struck down the executive order a...