Overview

• The Solicitor General petitioned the Court to review the executive order that would deny automatic citizenship to children born in the U.S. to undocumented or temporary‑status parents.
• D. John Sauer argued in the filing that lower‑court decisions undermine border security and wrongly extend citizenship to hundreds of thousands of ineligible people.
• It is the second request this year for Supreme Court intervention on the issue after multiple rulings found the policy at odds with the 14th Amendment’s birthright guarantee.
• The Ninth Circuit in July declared the order unconstitutional and sustained a nationwide halt, while a New Hampshire district judge reached a contrary conclusion.
• A June Supreme Court decision narrowed the ability of lower courts to impose nationwide blocks, prompting new class‑action challenges that have kept the policy suspended.