Birthright citizenship remains in effect despite recent court decisions and President Donald Trump's executive order

The Supreme Court's ruling on universal injunctions brings Trump closer to changing how citizenship is granted to babies born to noncitizens in the U.S.

A federal judge used an exception to overcome the Supreme Court's recent ruling that restricted the ability of judges to block this and other policies nationwide.

Immigration Matters is a recurring series by César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández that analyzes the court’s immigration docket, highlighting emerging legal questions about new policy and enforcement practices.

In a June 27 ruling, the Supreme Court granted the Trump administration’s request to partially halt nationwide injunctions blocking President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship for certain people born in the U.

The case stems from President Donald Trump's bid to end birthright citizenship, which has been frozen by multiple lower courts. The Supreme Court is not likely to rule on the constitutionality of birthright citizenship itself. It will instead focus on federal judges' use of nationwide injunctions, which have stunted key aspects of Trump's agenda.

President Trump argued judges don't have the power to entirely block his executive orders as they're being challenged in court.

Within hours of the ruling, which curbs nationwide injunctions, challengers filed new court papers seeking to block Trump's plan via a different legal avenue.

The Supreme Court handed President Donald Trump a win in his birthright citizenship case, but Attorney General Kris Mayes may have found a loophole.