President Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to prop up a January executive order ending birthright citizenship in the United States.
The order, which would stop the practice of granting citizenship to children of undocumented immigrants and other noncitizens born in the U.S., was all but laughed out of court by a federal judge that month. U.S. District Judge John Coughenour called the novel interpretation of the law “blatantly unconstitutional” while issuing a temporary restraining order on the Trump administration. Coughenour was one of three federal judges to put a pause on the policy.
