The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to look at whether President Donald Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order is constitutional.
A petition seeking review by the nation’s highest court was filed late on Sept. 26, Reuters reported. The Supreme Court is currently in its summer recess. It will open a new term hearing oral arguments on Oct. 6.
Trump’s Executive Order 14160, signed on Jan. 20, states that “the Fourteenth Amendment has never been interpreted to extend citizenship universally to everyone born within the United States.”
According to the order, an individual born in the United States is not “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” if that person’s mother was unlawfully present in the country and the individual’s father was not a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of the person’s birth….
Trump Admin Asks Supreme Court to Rule on Birthright Citizenship
