Nationwide or nowhere? Supreme Court weighs power to block Trump’s citizenship crackdown

Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court pose for their official photo at the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 7, 2022. Seated from left: Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John Roberts, Associate Justice Samuel Alito and Associate Justice Elena Kagan. Standing behind from left: Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch, Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh and Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. (Olivier Douliery/AFP/Getty Images/TNS) Olivier Douliery/AFP TNS

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By David Catanese

WASHINGTON

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Thursday in a case that will help frame President Donald Trump’s power to end automatic citizenship for children born in the United States whose parents didn’t enter the country legally.

The emergency appeal hearing stems from a January executive order signed by the president and blocked by a trio of federal judges in Washington state, Maryland and Massachusetts. The high court is not expected to rule directly on the constitutionality of the 14th Amendment, with justices focused instead on the reach of judicial restraints and whether lower courts hold the authority to issue nationwide injunctions that apply across the entire country.

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