President Trump today took his case to end birthright citizenship to the U.S. Supreme Court, reports the Washington Post.
The President signed the executive order on his first day in office ending the right of citizenship to all children born to non-citizens in the United States
However, Federal judges responding to lawsuits filed in 22 states and Washington, D.C., blocked the order, calling it blatantly unconstitutional.
Today, the President asked the high court to allow his order to proceed in those states not part of the current legal challenge.
“Universal injunctions have reached epidemic proportions since the start of the current administration,” the Justice Department said in its appeal, according to CNN. “Those universal injunctions prohibit a Day 1 Executive Order from being enforced anywhere in the country, as to ‘hundreds of thousands’ of unspecified individuals who are ‘not before the court nor identified by the court.’”
The President also asked the justices to begin planning to implement the ban “in the event that it takes effect,” Roll Call reported.
The right of birthright citizenship has been in place since the 19th Century when Wong Kim Ark in San Francisco won his case in the U.S. Supreme Court. The landmark case in 1898 ruled the 14th amendment guaranteed citizenship to anyone born or naturalized in the United States.
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