Supreme Court asks tense questions of Trump lawyer over birthright citizenship

Published May 15, 2025 12:09pm ET



The justices of the Supreme Court wasted no time Wednesday zeroing in on President Donald Trump‘s executive order to end birthright citizenship and his legal team’s push to limit the power of lower courts to block federal policies nationwide.

Wednesday’s hearing is one of the most consequential legal fights of Trump’s second term thus far and will examine the practical implications of what happens when a president enforces an illegal policy and no court has the universal power to stop it.

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