The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting “the right to birthright citizenship” is constitutional.
The Supreme Court said in a released statement that the case will hear the case and the trial will begin in the spring.
The Supreme Court must therefore rule on whether Trump’s executive order limiting the right to birthright citizenship is constitutional. A final decision is expected to be made in early summer.
Signed by Trump on the day he took office, January 20, 2025, the order stipulates that children of parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily will not be able to obtain American citizenship.
The legal process, which began after a challenge to the document, based on Trump’s desire to invoke the 18th century “Hostile Alien Act,” has reached the Supreme Court Court.
The executive order seeks to deny citizenship rights to children born in the United States to people on short-term visas or without legal status.
In the spring, the Supreme Court agreed to hear consolidated cases involving three lower federal judges in Maryland, Massachusetts and Washington who in April imposed nationwide temporary bans on Trump’s order.