March 13, 2025
Updated March 14, 2025
The Trump Administration on Thursday filed an emergency application with the Supreme Court asking the Court to allow a request that will limit birthright citizenship to partly take effect while legal fights continue.
In a Court filing late Thursday, the administration is asking the justices to restrict the court orders previously entered by district judges in Maryland, Massachusetts, and Washington that prevent President Donald Trump’s Executive Order on birthright citizenship signed in January to take effect.
The EO, which legal activists and NGOs say violates the U.S. Constitution’s 14th Amendment pledge that guarantees citizenship to anyone born in the U.S., would deny citizenship to children born after February 19 of this year whose parents are in the country illegally.
The EO, which also forbids US agencies from issuing documents or accepting any state document recognizing citizenship for such children, is part of the swift orders President Trump issued on January 20 to halt the inflow of illegal immigrants and illegal deadly drugs from other countries into the country.
The EO is being blocked nationwide, thanks to legal actions taken by a dozen states and several individuals and groups who have sued to stop the order from taking effect.
In response, the Trump Administration Justice Department argues that individual judges and states lack the power to give nationwide effect to their rulings or legal right to challenge the President’s Executive Order.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters Friday at the White House that the administration intends to fight back by appealing and by using the full weight of the White House Counsel office and the Federal government.
“We believe that this injunction is entirely unconstitutional, and it is for anybody under the basis of the law. You can not have a low-level district court judge filing an injunction to usurp the executive authority of the President of the United States. That’s completely absurd and as the Executive head of the executive branch, the President has the authority to fire or hire and you have these low-level judges who are trying to block this President’s agenda.
Citing unnamed statistics she said in one month since February, there have been 15 legal injunctions against the Trump administration’s agenda, bedore adding that in three years under the Biden administration, there were 14 injunctions.
Leavitt stated “It’s very clear there are judicial activists throughout our judicial branch who are trying to block this President’s executive authority. We are going to fight back and as anyone who saw President Trump and his legal team fighting back, they know how to do it.
She also said all the injunctions are unconstitutional and unfair and are led by partisan activists who are trying to usurp the will of this President and we are not going to stand for it.
In the meantime, the administration has asked for permission to announce publicly how it plans to implement the policy if it eventually is allowed to take effect.
