WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court announced Friday that it will hear oral arguments weighing the constitutionality of President Donald Trump’s highly controversial proposal executive order declare that children born to parents in the United States illegally or temporarily are not US citizens.

Trump signed the executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship on his first day in office. Citizenship by birth is defined in the Constitution 14th Amendment and states that “all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the States in which they reside.”

Since signing it, Trump’s attempt to undo a century of established law has suffered a major setback in the country’s lower courts, where it has repeatedly been ruled unconstitutional or likely is. The executive order was blocked no less than four times at the district court level and an appeals court as well knocked him down as unconstitutional, preventing its entry into force throughout the country.

Trump's attempt to roll back a century of established law has sparked significant pushback in the country's lower courts.
Trump’s attempt to roll back a century of established law has sparked significant pushback in the country’s lower courts.

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Unable to escape a series of nationwide injunctions that lower courts imposed on Trump’s executive order, the administration I tried to approach the problem from another angle.. The president asked the Supreme Court in March not explicitly deciding the merits of their order over primogeniture, but rather, greatly restrict the way in which injunctions are issued nationwide from district courts.

They argued that the only people who should be allowed to sue are the people directly affected in a specific location. The highest court in its majority agreed with the administration over the use of injunctive relief, and while some class-action lawsuits challenging Trump’s birth order were allowed to proceed, the majority’s ruling dealt a significant blow to the public’s ability to challenge government overreach. Trump called it “GIANT GAIN” in Social Truth.

Like News themezone reportedTrump’s order declared that any child born in the United States to an undocumented person within 30 days of January 20, 2025 would not be considered a US citizen. (The order also included children of women who are in the US “illegally” and children whose mothers are in the US temporarily but legally, such as on a visa, and whose parents “were not citizens of the United States.” or legal permanent resident” when the child was born.)

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment from News themezone.

Commenting on Friday’s decision, Morenike Fajana, senior counsel at the Legal Defense Fund, said they and the ACLU hope to appear before the Supreme Court to “uphold the constitutional promise of citizenship for all babies born in the United States.” “The Trump administration’s attempts to unilaterally rewrite the 14th Amendment, an essential Reconstruction-era measure that granted citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States, including formerly enslaved people, will not stand,” Fajana said.

The arguments will be held next year, although Friday’s Supreme Court order did not specify a date.