The fate of Donald Trump’s effort to curtail automatic citizenship for people born in the US will be decided by the Supreme Court, setting up a blockbuster ruling on a fundamental plank of the president’s anti-immigration agenda.
The country’s top court on Friday said it would rule on an appeal filed by the Trump administration against a lower court’s decision to block national enforcement of the president’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship.
The policy has ignited heated debate in America for challenging a right enshrined in the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution granting citizenship to “all persons born or naturalised in the United States”.