The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is poised on Thursday to consider Donald Trump's attempt to broadly enforce his executive order to limit birthright citizenship, a move that would affect thousands of babies born each year as the Republican president seeks a major shift in how the U.S. Constitution was written.
The justices are scheduled to hear arguments on the administration's emergency request to scale back injunctions issued by federal judges in Maryland, Washington and Massachusetts blocking Trump's directive nationwide. The judges found Trump's order likely violates citizenship language in the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment.
The case is unusual in that the administration has used it to argue that federal judges lack the authority to issue nationwide, or "universal," injunctions, and have asked the justices to rule that way and enforce Trump's directive even without weighing its legal merits.
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