The administration of United States President Donald Trump has asked the Supreme Court to reduce the effect of the court decision that blocks the ban on granting US citizenship by birth. This was reported by US media on 13 March.
The US Justice Department has filed a request with the Supreme Court to appeal the scope of three nationwide injunctions that federal courts in the states of Washington, Massachusetts and Maryland have issued against Trump’s order.
The government argues that the injunctions should not be applied universally, but should be limited to plaintiffs in cases that are “actually within the power of the courts.”
“Universal injunctions have reached epidemic proportions since the beginning of the current administration. This dramatic increase in the number of universal injunctions prevents the executive branch from performing its constitutional functions before any court fully considers the merits of these actions and threatens to flood this Court’s emergency docket,” Acting U.S. Attorney General Sarah Harris said in the request.
She urged the Supreme Court to limit the reach of federal court decisions “before district courts begin to rely even more heavily on universal injunctions.”
The justices, who had previously ruled against Trump’s order, called it unconstitutional under the US Constitution.
Hours after taking the oath of office on 20 January, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order to revoke automatic citizenship for those born in the United States
Trump’s executive order, titled “protecting the meaning and value of U.S. citizenship,” excludes citizenship for children born in the United States to parents who are neither citizens nor lawful permanent residents.
The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, passed in 1868, three years after slavery was abolished, declares that “all persons born or naturalised in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.”
Trump’s executive order says the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution, which protects the right to citizenship at birth, has been misinterpreted and should not apply to children born to parents whose permanent residency is undocumented.