The Trump administration on Friday reportedly appealed to the Supreme Court to review the president’s executive order seeking to unilaterally terminate birthright citizenship after multiple federal courts blocked it from taking effect.
The executive order, which Trump signed his first day in office, seeks to deny citizenship to children born to immigrants on visas or in the U.S. illegally. The policy contradicts a century’s worth of legal understanding of the meaning of the 14th Amendment, which declares that “all persons born or naturalized” in the U.S. are citizens.
