The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court on Friday to review the constitutionality of President Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship, pushing the issue before the justices for the second time this year.
Despite more than a century of understanding that the 14th Amendment confers citizenship on people born inside America, the Trump administration is more keen now than ever to issue an appeal to the Supreme Court that the notion was mistaken and that the view became pervasive with destructive consequences.
‘The lower court’s decision invalidated a policy of prime importance to the president and his administration in a manner that undermines our border security,’- Solicitor General D. John Sauer mentioned.
‘Those decisions confer, without lawful justification, the privilege of American citizenship on hundreds of thousands of unqualified people,’- the post read. CNN went on to review a copy of this appeal, which has not yet been docketed at the high court.
While the Supreme Court handed down an important decision in June that dealt with birthright citizenship, that case was technically focused more on a procedural question of how much power lower courts had to stop the policy implemented by a head of state.point 323 |
A 6-3 majority of the court essentially limited but didn’t completely rule out the power of courts to block those policies.point 109 | 1