If the Trump administration prevails in its crusade to overturn birthright citizenship, it will result in a population of newborns without legal status. Since Reconstruction, any child born in the United States has been able to access citizenship, regardless of their parents nationality or race.

but Sauer faced pushback this week about whether limiting injunctions was appropriate in this case. Trump's order would end birthright citizenship for children born in the United States unless at ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday was divided over whether a federal judge has the power to block President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship while the case moves through […]

Justice Kagan blasted U.S. Solicitor General John Sauer on the birthright citizenship executive order— which she noted has yet to succeed in any federal court, including cases heard by Trump-appointed judges.

Arguments before the US Supreme Court on birthright citizenship – awarded to those born in the US – actually focused on the power of federal judges to impose nationwide injunctions.

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on birthright citizenship this week — but it has become about something different entirely.