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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Woodward

Trump asks Supreme Court to let him enforce executive order redefining birthright citizenship

Donald Trump’s administration is taking the legal fight over birthright citizenship to the Supreme Court with a demand that justices limit the scope of multiple court rulings that have rejected his executive order that seeks to block children of certain immigrants from being citizens at birth.

Petitions to the nation’s high court on Thursday calls on the justices to limit three nationwide injunctions issued in courts across the country to apply only to the states that sued and won.

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