‘Government-by-universal-injunction has persisted long enough’: Trump demands SCOTUS limit federal court powers over executive branch in birthright citizenship ban case

Donald Trump opens his palms in the White House.

US President Donald Trump sits during his meeting with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on March 13, 2025. Photo by Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Sipa USA (Sipa via AP Images).

President Donald Trump on Thursday appealed to the nation’s highest court in an effort to resuscitate a ban on birthright citizenship.

Acting Solicitor General Sarah M. Harris, in a 43-page application for a partial stay, grapples with three nationwide injunctions that bar the administration from moving forward with the constitutionally fraught effort to drastically remake the American system by undoing the legal promise of citizenship that has held sway for nearly 130 years.

The filing before the U.S. Supreme Court largely eschews arguing the merits of the underlying birthright citizenship policy in favor of fighting over the propriety of the injunctions issued in each case.

In no uncertain terms, the Trump administration accused district courts of overstepping their bounds through the scope and breadth of relief issued in the various lawsuits over the stalled-out policy.

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