Agency Report
The White House filed a series of appeals to the Supreme Court on Thursday, asking the justices to allow President Donald Trump‘s executive order on birthright citizenship to be implemented in part after several federal judges blocked it from going forward.
Why It Matters
The executive order hinges on the Fourteenth Amendment, which has granted United States citizenship to those born on American soil since it was adopted in 1868.
Trump challenged this in his executive order, saying that “the Fourteenth Amendment has never been interpreted to extend citizenship universally to everyone born within the United States. The Fourteenth Amendment has always excluded from birthright citizenship persons who were born in the United States but not ‘subject to the jurisdiction thereof.'”
It has been widely expected since the order was signed that the birthright citizenship question would eventually make its way to the Supreme Court.
After Trump’s inauguration on January 20, he issued the executive order called “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship,” in which he said his policy would not recognize U.S. citizenship to those born in the country if their mother “was unlawfully present in the United States and the father was not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident.”
Trump’s order was almost immediately blocked in lower courts in Maryland, Washington and Massachusetts. In his appeal to the Supreme Court on Thursday, the Trump Administration is asking for those blocks to be reversed, according to The Associated Press.
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