In a rare move, the Supreme Court announced Thursday that it will hear oral arguments in May on President Donald Trump’s executive order addressing birthright citizenship, following an emergency request from the administration.
On his first day in office in January, Trump signed an executive order interpreting the 14th Amendment to mean that only children born to parents “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States are granted citizenship.
The order’s effect would be to deny automatic U.S. citizenship to children born to individuals who are not legal residents, the Western Journal reported
