Chicago – May 15, 2025
The Supreme Court will hear arguments Thursday about President Donald Trump’s plan to end birthright citizenship and significantly limit the power of federal courts to slow his agenda – a case that has been rushed onto the high court’s docket less than four months after he returned to the White House.
Though not framed as a case on the constitutionality of birthright citizenship, the emergency appeal nevertheless asks the 6-3 conservative court to allow the administration to widely enforce an order Trump signed on his first day in office that would deny passports and other documents to babies born to non-US citizens.
Along the way, Trump is hoping a majority of justices will also block courts in the future from pausing his policies on a nationwide basis.
In that sense, the case – the first involving Trump to be argued at the court during his second term – is a culmination of the administration’s norm-busting approach to the law.
