The U.S. Supreme Court heard debate on Thursday in a case that challenged the Trump administration’s efforts to limit who acquires birthright citizenship.
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At the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday, the judge heard a lawsuit challenging the constitutional provisions that guarantee automatic citizenship for all babies born in the United States, but the discussion focuses on another question.
Justice seemed to be divided into these issues.
Some have appeared to be skeptical of the Trump administration’s claim that lower courts should not have the right to issue a national injunction.
“What does hospitals do with newborns? What does the state do with newborns?” Judge Brett Kavanaugh asked Attorney General John Sauer, a government lawyer, about how the federal government will enforce Trump’s orders.
Judge Brown Jackson was more pointed out.
“Your argument seems to be changing, in my view, our judicial system at least to catch me if you can get some kind of government. Everyone has to have a lawyer and file a lawsuit to stop the government from violating people’s rights,” she said.
However, Judge Clarence Thomas seemed more embraced by Sauer’s argument, noting that the United States had “survived” without a national injunction until the 1960s.
General Jeremy Fagenbaum, a New Jersey lawyer who represents 22 states suing the government, told the court that national injunctions should be available in “a narrow situation.”
Kelsi Kolklan, who represented pregnant women and immigration rights groups in the case, proposed that a nationwide injunction be granted only if the plaintiff deems a government case unconstitutional. She argued that an injunction, limited to the parties to the case, would not be “adjustedly feasible.”
President Trump has long argued that the Constitution is do not have Guaranteed birthright citizenship. So, on the first day of his second presidential term, He issued an executive order Except for any baby’s automatic citizenship Born in the United States, where parents either illegally entered the country or were legally here but were born on a temporary visa.
Thursday, He posted to the Society of Truth “It all began shortly after the civil war ended, and it had nothing to do with today’s immigration policy!” – and repetition Not correct claim The United States is the only country with birthright.
Immigration rights groups and 22 states immediately challenged the Trump order in court. Since then, three conservative and Liberals federal judges have determined Trump’s presidential order is “blatantly unconstitutional.” Three separate courts of appeals also refused to unblock these orders while the appeal was ongoing. Meanwhile, there are few supporters of Trump’s legal claims.
Nevertheless, the Trump administration took the case to the Supreme Court based on the emergency. But instead of asking the court to control the legality of Trump’s executive order, the administration focused on the powers of federal district judges to do what they did here – rule over the administration nationwide.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
