The Supreme Court has decided to hear arguments over Trump Administration’s enforcement of birthright citizenship restrictions on May 15.
The Apex Court’s announcement Thursday indicates that pending hearing the federal judges’ pause on implementation of President Donald Trump‘s executive order ending birthright citizenship for illegally living immigrants and foreign residents would remain in place.
The case would be the first the Supreme Court would be hearing publicly about legal challenges the Administration has faced on some of the immigration-related policy measures.
The birthright citizenship is enshrined in the U.S. Constitution’s the 14th Amendment‘s which states that “all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.”
Supporters of President Trump’s executive order interpret the amendment as primarily facilitating the enslaved people at the time of its enactment after the Emancipation Proclamation, and that it does not apply to immigrants who enter the United States illegally. They argue that they system has been abused by undocumented immigrants.
Trump says the changes he has directed are necessary to enforce security on the U.S.-Mexico border.
“It’s all about slavery, and if you look it at that way, we should win that case,” Trump said Thursday.
“I am so happy,” President Donald Trump said Thursday. “I think the case has been so misunderstood.”
The administration is seeking to loosen the nationwide hold on implementation of the executive order.
Judges in Maryland, Massachusetts and Washington hearing law suits against the order had stopped enforcement of the executive order restricting the birthright citizenship. U.S. District Judge John Coughenour in Seattle declared President Trump’s order as being “blatantly unconstitutional.”
In allowing oral arguments in the case, the Supreme Court will take up all applications as consolidated.
The Department of Justice argues that the order limiting the birthright citizenship should be applicable for everyone except those included in the law suits.
The last time the Supreme Court endorsed the birthright citizenship as valid was in 1898.The courts have since then maintained that interpretation of the 14th which grants citizenship to children born in the United States.
