Trump uses Supreme Court birthright citizenship case in bid to limit judges' power
Earlier DU thread: The Supreme Court's birthright citizenship case isn't really about birthright citizenship - Vox's Ian Millhiser
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Source: USA Today
Trump uses Supreme Court birthright citizenship case in bid to limit judges' power
President Trump is counting on the Supreme Court to limit the ability of judges to put his policies on hold while they're being challenged.
USA TODAY
Updated: May 11, 2025 12:25 p.m. ET
Key Points
• Trump wants the Supreme Court to narrow the scope of multiple court orders keeping his new rules on hold until his birthright citizenship order has been fully litigated.
• Court orders that go beyond providing relief to those challenging a program or policy were rare until relatively recently, when they began to plague both Democratic and Republican presidents.
• The patten began in 2015 when Texas sued the Obama administration to stop expansion of a program protecting young immigrants from deportation if they were brought to the U.S. illegally as children.
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The president hasn’t asked the high court to consider the legality of his policy – which was called “blatantly unconstitutional” by the first judge to review it.
Instead, Trump wants the justices to narrow the scope of multiple court orders keeping his new rules on hold until the citizenship policy has been fully litigated.
The administration argues that, for now, Trump should be able to impose the change on everyone except the eighteen parents named in the lawsuits or, at most, any member of two immigrant rights groups or residents of a state that challenged the policy.
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Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/11/birthright-citizenship-supreme-court-trump/83541130007/