SCOTUS Could Block Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order

May 16, 2025 4:13 am

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court seems intent on keeping a block on President Donald Trump’s restrictions on birthright citizenship while looking for a way to scale back nationwide court orders. It’s unclear what such a decision might look like. But a majority of the court expressed concerns Thursday about what would happen if the Trump administration were allowed, even temporarily, to deny citizenship to the children born of some immigrants. The justices heard arguments in Trump’s emergency appeals over lower court orders that have kept the restrictions on hold nationwide while lawsuits go forward. Nationwide injunctions have emerged as a check on Trump’s efforts to remake the government and a source of frustration to the Republican president.