Supreme Court to Review Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order

The Supreme Court is looking to consider the executive order that lower courts have blocked as unconstitutional.

The Supreme Court is set to meet in private on Friday with the Trump Administration’s Birthright Citizenship order on the agenda.

The debate on Birthright Citizenship centers on children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily and how that determines the child’s citizenship status. Currently, if a child is born in the United States, then they, with rare exceptions, become an American citizen, regardless of their parents’ citizenship status. Trump wants to get rid of this rule.

So far, the order to strike down the rule has been blocked by lower courts across the US. But if the Supreme Court decides to step in now, the case will be argued in the spring and bring a definitive ruling by early summer.

The Birthright Citizenship order was signed by Trump on his first day of his second term in the white house. As a part of his greater plans for immigration, like increased immigration enforcement in several cities, and the first peacetime usage of the 18th-century Alien Enemies Act.

It’s hard to say what the high court may say about this issue, because there has been a mixed bag of responses to Trump’s immigration related orders. They stopped the usage of the Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members without court hearings. But they have allowed the resumption of sweeping immigration stops in and around Los Angeles. An order that was originally stopped by a lower court on the practice of stopping people solely based on their race, language, job or location.

This is the first of the Trump Administration-related immigration policies to reach the Supreme Court for a final ruling. Lower courts have struck down the executive order as unconstitutional. If the order passes, then it would contradict more than 125 years of how the U.S. interprets the 14th Amendment. A part of the Constitution that confers citizenship on everyone born on American soil.