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<\/iframe><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>The Supreme Court handed US President Donald Trump a victory in his effort to revoke birthright citizenship, in a decision that blocks lower courts from halting policies nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>While granting the administration\u2019s request to limit injunctions by lower courts, Friday\u2019s 6-3 decision did not rule on the merits of birthright citizenship itself, which automatically grants US nationality to all children born in the country, including those of unauthorised immigrants.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ft.com\/donald-trump\" data-trackable=\"link\">Trump<\/a> issued his executive order to deny citizenship in such cases on January 20, the day he returned to office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGIANT WIN in the United States Supreme Court!\u201d the president posted on his Truth Social network on Friday. \u201cEven the Birthright Citizenship Hoax has been, indirectly, hit hard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The principal impact of the ruling is to limit lower courts\u2019 ability to make rulings with an impact well beyond the parties in a case. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen a court concludes that the Executive Branch has acted unlawfully, the answer is not for the court to exceed its power, too,\u201d the majority opinion said.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s executive order will not now go into effect for 30 days, allowing lower courts to \u201cdetermine whether a narrower injunction is appropriate\u201d, according to the opinion authored by conservative justice Amy Coney Barrett.<\/p>\n<p>Trump and other top officials have harshly criticised district court judges, who the administration claims have acted beyond their authority by freezing executive orders on everything from trade to deportations. <\/p>\n<p>Trump has argued that the Fourteenth Amendment, which grants birthright citizenship, did not \u201cextend citizenship universally to everyone born\u201d in the US.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/d678fbfb-2243-470c-ac7c-2c79ddc8506d\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump\u2019s second term means for Washington,…\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":32727,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-us","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/32727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}