The Justice Department on Friday petitioned the Supreme Court to rule on a lower court's decision blocking President Donald Trump's executive order ending birthright citizenship. File Photo by Leigh Vogel/UPI | License Photo
Sept. 27 (UPI) -- The Justice Department on Friday asked the Supreme Court to rule on the 14th Amendment's birthright citizenship provision following adverse rulings in lower courts.
President Donald Trump on the first day of his second term in office signed an executive order ending birthright citizenship for anyone who does not have at least one parent who is a U.S. citizen, but lower courts have blocked the order's implementation, according to NBC News.
"The lower court's decisions invalidated a policy of prime importance to the president and his administration in a manner that undermines our border security," the DOJ said in its appeal to the Supreme Court, as reported by USA Today.
"Those decisions confer, without lawful justification, the privilege of American citizenship on hundreds of thousands of unqualified people," the appeal said.
