The Supreme Court decided on April 17 to hear oral argument next month on President Donald Trump’s request to halt lower court orders that blocked his policy of limiting birthright citizenship for certain individuals.
The new order states that the nation’s highest court will hear the case on May 15. No justices dissented from the order.
The new ruling allows Trump’s plan to remain blocked for the time being.
Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship, signed on Jan. 20, stated that an individual born in the United States is not “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” if that person’s mother was unlawfully present in the country and the individual’s father was not a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of his or her birth….