The Trump administration filed a second appeal asking the Supreme Court to look at whether President Donald Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order is constitutional.
The federal government’s new petition in Trump v. Barbara was docketed by the court on Sept. 29.
The new petition was docketed after the government filed a petition in a related case, Trump v. State of Washington, with the Supreme Court on Sept. 26.
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 Appeals Ruling Blocking Birthright Citizenship Policy
