Trump administration again takes birthright citizenship to the Supreme Court in the U.S.

Los Ángeles (USA).- The administration of the President of the United States, Donald Trump, appealed this Friday to the Supreme Court to review the constitutionality of the executive order that seeks to eliminate citizenship by birth, which marks the second time it has asked the magistrates to address this issue. At least three federal judges have ruled against the Republican president’s attempt to eliminate birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented persons and immigrants with temporary visas, which contradicts the 14th Amendment of the Constitution, which establishes that every person born in the U.S. is considered a citizen. In the appeal cited by CNN, U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer considers that the decisions of the lower courts on the executive order signed by Trump on the second day of returning to office “undermine” border security.

“Those decisions grant, without legal justification, the privilege of U.S. citizenship to hundreds of thousands of people who do not meet the requirements,” Sauer, the lead attorney for the U.S. Executive’s appeals, emphasized.

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This is the second time the White House is seeking to have the highest judges decide on an issue related to citizenship, following the victory the president obtained last June on the subject.

Trump Seeks to Reinterpret the 14th Amendment

Although the Supreme Court’s decision on that occasion regarding the executive order does not refer to the merits of the decree itself, but rather is limited to the jurisdiction of the lower courts and the legality in their decisions to block an Executive order nationwide, this did represent an achievement in Trump’s attempts to change the interpretation of the 14th Amendment. The leader has insisted that this right enshrined in the Constitution “had to do with the babies of slaves” and not with the children of the “thousands of people who are entering the country” due to this constitutional provision. Last July, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in California ruled against the executive order to limit birthright citizenship, whose application is suspended nationwide while cases are reviewed.

The appeal filed this Friday before the Supreme Court refers to the ruling of the Californian court of appeals and an adverse ruling by a judge in New Hampshire.