Supreme Court to hear arguments over injunctions on Trump bid to end birthright citizenship
The nation's highest court set arguments for May 15 at 10 a.m.
ByDevin Dwyer
April 17, 2025, 2:38 PM
The Supreme Court on Thursday said it would hear expedited oral arguments next month over President Donald Trump's emergency request to rollback nationwide injunctions against his executive order to end birthright citizenship.
The nation's highest court set arguments for May 15 at 10 a.m.
The move by the justicessets the stagefor a decision by this summer on three separate district court injunctions that had blocked the administration from moving forward with its plan to create a new standard for establishing citizenship to children born on U.S. soil to parents who do not have permanent legal status.
Trump had asked the Supreme Court to allow the administration to, at the very least, begin planning for the change. He also took aim at the universal lower court mandates that he argued exceeded their authority.
"This Court should declare thatenough is enoughbefore district courts’ burgeoning reliance on universal injunctions becomes further entrenched," Trump's acting solicitor general wrote in the application. "The Court should stay the district courts’ preliminary injunctions except as to the individual plaintiffs and the identified members of the organizational plaintiffs (and, if the Court concludes that States are proper litigants, as to individuals who are born or reside in those States)."
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