An impending Supreme Court decision related to birthright citizenship could have broad implications for the Trump administration’s policies, including its “energy dominance” agenda.
On Thursday, the justices will hear oral arguments on whether three lower courts improperly blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order to limit birthright citizenship. Conservatives are urging the court to take the opportunity to more broadly curb federal judges’ power to block nationwide policies.
The justices’ ruling in this case has “huge implications, and I think the court needs to be careful,” said Suzette Malveaux, a law professor at Washington and Lee University.
“If you think about citizenship, or people being illegally detained and deported out of the country, or massive layoffs of federal workers or environmental protection,” Malveaux said, “all of those things are being touched by this question of whether a single judge can, in fact, stop an executive order or policy from being implemented nationwide.”
