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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