The justices announced Friday they will take the matter, with arguments possibly in April and a decision expected by the end of June.
By Catholics for Catholics
The Supreme Court responded to resolve whether President Donald Trump’s plan to terminate automatic birthright citizenship for children born on U.S. soil is unconstitutional.
The judges announced Friday they will examine the matter, with arguments possibly in April and a decision expected by the end of June, according to Newsmax.
Part of the GOP’s extensive immigration crackdown is the birthright citizenship order, which Trump signed on Jan. 20, the first day of his second term. Other measures include immigration enforcement operations in various cities and the first peacetime invocation of the 18th-century Alien Enemies Act.
The Trump administration is confronting multiple court challenges, and the high court has sent mixed signals in emergency orders it has issued. To swiftly deport alleged Venezuelan gang members without court hearings, the justices in effect stopped the use of the Alien Enemies Act.
Trump’s order would overturn more than 125 years of interpretation that the Constitution’s 14th Amendment grants citizenship to everyone born on American soil, with limited exceptions for the children of foreign diplomats and those born to a foreign occupying force.
During the ongoing immigration debacle, the Supreme Court permitted the continuation of sweeping immigration stops in the Los Angeles area, after a lower court blocked the practice of stopping people solely based on their race, language, job or location.
The judges also are deliberating the administration’s emergency appeal to agree to deploy National Guard troops in the Chicago area for immigration enforcement actions. A lower court has indefinitely stopped the deployment.
The Trump administration has contended that children born in the country from noncitizens are not “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States and therefore not allowed citizenship.
“The Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause was adopted to grant citizenship to newly freed slaves and their children — not … to the children of aliens illegally or temporarily in the United States,” top administration top Supreme Court lawyer, D. John Sauer, wrote in urging the high court’s review.
Newsmax reported that twenty-four Republican-led states and 27 Republican lawmakers, including Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, are backing the administration.
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