In a series of urgent appeals, the administration of President Donald Trump sought permission from the Supreme Court to proceed with his initiative to abolish birthright citizenship, promoting a legal argument that has been consistently dismissed by various lower courts.The Trump administration urged the justices to mitigate the effects of this contentious policy, contending that lower courts had overstepped by issuing nationwide injunctions to obstruct it.In January, a federal judge halted the enforcement of his executive order, labeling it as “blatantly unconstitutional.” A Maryland judge subsequently remarked that Trump’s proposal “contradicts our nation’s 250-year history of citizenship by birth.”The appeals courts have rejected the Trump administration’s plea to overturn lower court rulings that imposed nationwide injunctions on an executive order he enacted on the first day of his second term.(CONTINUE READING FULL ARTICLE IN THE NEXT LINK BELOW)
