Trump administration files emergency appeals in SC to end birthright citizenship
PTC News Desk: The Trump administration has filed an emergency appeal in the Supreme Court seeking permission to proceed with the procedure to end birthright citizenship.
In a series of appeals, the Trump administration contended that lower courts had gone too far in issuing orders blocking the policy and requested the court to restrict the impact of those orders.
Earlier in January, a federal judge blocked the implementation of the order while describing it is 'blatantly unconstitutional'. Following which a judge in a judge in Maryland stressed that Trump's plan "runs counter to our nation's 250-year history of citizenship by birth."
Courts in Maryland, Massachusetts, and Washington have all issued orders blocking its enforcement at the request of more than 20 states, two immigrant rights groups and seven individual plaintiffs.
In its emergency appeals filed in the Supreme Court, the US Justice Department said, "Universal injunctions have reached epidemic proportions since the start of the current administration."
"Those universal injunctions prohibit a Day 1 Executive Order from being enforced anywhere in the country, as to 'hundreds of thousands' of unspecified individuals who are 'not before the court nor identified by the court'," the US Justice Department said in the emergency appeals.
- With inputs from agencies
