The Department of Justice said it will ask the Supreme Court to rule on the constitutionality of President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship, Newsweek reported.
The announcement was disclosed in a joint status report filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington.
Trump’s executive order, signed on his first day in office, called for the federal government to deny citizenship to children born in the U.S. to temporary immigrant parents and those in the country illegally. A district court in Seattle issued an injunction against the order two weeks later.
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