Three district courts previously issued separate orders blocking Trump’s policy.
The Supreme Court on April 17 left in place lower court orders blocking President Donald Trump’s policy of limiting birthright citizenship for certain individuals and scheduled oral arguments in the case for next month.
The new order states that the nation’s highest court will hear the case on May 15. No justices dissented from the order.
It is unusual for the Supreme Court to hear oral arguments in May, just weeks before it begins its summer recess.
The justices will actually hear three separate cases on the matter at once. They are Trump v. CASA Inc., Trump v. Washington, and Trump v. New Jersey. All three cases were appealed to the Supreme Court on March 13.
Trump’s Executive Order 14160, signed on Jan. 20, states that “the Fourteenth Amendment has never been interpreted to extend citizenship universally to everyone born within the United States.”
In filings for the three appeals, the Department of Justice did not ask the Supreme Court to rule on the constitutionality of the executive order itself, although it acknowledged that the birthright citizenship question raises “important constitutional questions with major ramifications for securing the border.”
