Overview

• Solicitor General D. John Sauer filed an appeal urging the Supreme Court to review President Trump’s order limiting birthright citizenship for U.S.-born children.
• The administration argues the long-standing interpretation of the Citizenship Clause is mistaken and says lower courts wrongly conferred citizenship without lawful basis.
• A June Supreme Court ruling narrowed the use of nationwide injunctions without addressing the merits, prompting new class actions and other cases from challengers.
• Subsequent lower-court decisions have kept the policy on hold, and the administration now seeks a definitive ruling from the high court.
• CNN reviewed the appeal, which had not been docketed at the Supreme Court at the time of reporting, marking the dispute’s second trip to the justices this year.