Washington:
The American Supreme Court said on Thursday that the next month will hear arguments about Donald Trump's bid to force his executive order to limit the automatic citizenship of birthright, an important pillar of the Republican President of Immigration President.
The judges, in a non -signing order, did not immediately act on a request from the government of Trump to limit the scope of three national orders issued by federal judges in the state of Washington, Massachusetts and Maryland who stopped his order from January 20 while the case was tightened.
Instead, the court postponed a decision about that request until it hears arguments in the case established on 15 May.
The order of Trump, signed back on his first day, ordered federal agencies to refuse to refuse to recognize the citizenship of children born in the United States who do not have at least one parent who is an American citizen or is legal permanent resident.
In a series of lawsuits, claimants, including 22 Democratic state lawyers -general, proponents of immigrant rights and some prospective mothers, that the order of Trump violates a right that is laid down in the 14th amendment of the American Constitution, which was ratified in 1868, that everyone in the United States is a citizen.
The citizenship clause of the 14th amendment states that all “persons born or naturalized in the United States are and are subject to its jurisdiction, are citizens of the United States and of the state in which they live.”
New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin, who helps to lead one of the lawsuits that challenges the Order of Trump, said that his office is looking forward to presenting arguments in the case.
“The citizenship of birthright was laid down in the constitution in the aftermath of the civil war, is supported by a long line of the precedent of the Supreme Court and ensures that something as fundamental as American citizenship cannot be called in on the whims of a single man,” Platkin said in a statement.
The US Department of Justice did not immediately respond to a request for comments.
The administration argues that the 14th amendment, understood for a long time to grant citizenship to almost anyone born in the United States, does not extend to immigrants who are illegal or even in the country for immigrants whose presence is legally but temporary, such as university students or who at Werkvisa.
However, the request of the Administration to the Supreme Court did not ask the court about the constitutionalness of the Trump order. Instead, it used the legal struggle to press the Supreme Court to tackle national or universal ', orders that federal judges have issued, aspects of Trump's various executive orders to reform national policy, including the citizenship of birthright. Universal orders can prevent the government from enforcing a policy against everyone, rather than just the individual claimants who have sued the policy.
A ruling from 1898 US Supreme Court in a case called United States v. Wong Kim Ark Long has been interpreted as a guarantee that children born in the United States to non-citizen parents are entitled to American citizenship. The Ministry of Justice of Trump has argued that the court's decision in that case was narrower and applied to children whose parents had a “permanent place of residence and stay in the United States.”
Trump's command of the birthright citizenship “reflects the original meaning, historical understanding and the correct scope of the citizenship clause,” wrote the American lawyer -general John Sauer, who represents the administration. Sauer said that the citizenship of universal birthright encourages illegal immigration and “birth tourism” in which people travel to the United States to give birth to secure citizenship for their children.
Universal orders
Proponents of universal orders have said that they are efficient control of the presidential over -range and have hindered actions that are considered illegal by presidents of both parties. Critics have said that they surpass the authority of district judges and politicize the judiciary.
Sauer said in a written application that a “small subset of Federal District Courts are facing the entire judiciary with the appearance of political activism”, 28 National orders issued against the government of Trump in February and March.
The claimants criticized the government's focus on the scope of the lower court assignments instead of their conclusions that Trump's directive is contrary to the Constitution.
The State Washington had urged the Supreme Court to reject the “myopic” request of the administration, since the order of Trump is “flagrant unconstitutional”.
“Recognition that the command of the citizenship-rays order is impossible to defend, the federal government surrounds its application as an opportunity to tackle the permissibility of national orders,” the state added.
By asking the court to enforce Trump's order, except to individual claimants who challenge it, Sauer said that the States do not have the required legal status to claim the rights of the individuals under the citizenship clause.
In the lawsuit of the state of Washington, set by the state of Washington, Arizona, Illinois and Oregon and various pregnant women – the American district judge John Coughenour issued his order against the order of Trump on 6 February. During a hearing in the case, Coughenour, an appointed by the Republican former President Ronald Reagan, called the Order of Trump 'clearly unonderer'.
The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals, based in San Francisco, refused to put the order of the judge on hold on 19 February.
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