Supreme Court weighs Trump plea to implement plan on birthright citizenship limits

The court is considering whether to allow the proposal to go into effect at least in some parts of the country while litigation continues in lower courts.

WASHINGTON — Supreme Court justices on Thursday expressed concerns about allowing President Donald Trump's radical reinterpretation of the Constitution's guarantee of birthright citizenship to go into effect while litigation continues.

In an unusual move, the court heard oral arguments on a series of Trump administration emergency requests seeking to limit the scope of nationwide injunctions that blocked the plan almost as soon as it was announced in January.

In more than two hours of oral argument, the justices vigorously debated various ways to limit the number of nationwide injunctions, but on the birthright citizenship issue specifically a majority appeared to think such an approach may have been justified, especially in cases brought by states.

Even if the Trump administration loses on its efforts to narrow injunctions in the birthright citizenship cases, any decision that sets new limits on such nationwide injunctions could help the administration implement other policies via executive actions, many of which have also been blocked by lower court judges.

There is also a chance the court could change course and quickly take up the merits of Trump’s birthright citizenship proposal, with several justices indicating the administration would lose. That would allow the court to quickly reach a definitive decision on the subject that would apply nationwide.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/supreme-court-trump-plea-limit-birthright-citizenship-rcna206794


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