The Trump administration is planning to quickly ask the Supreme Court to review the constitutionality of President Donald ...

Casa, Solicitor General John Sauer repeatedly defended President Donald Trump's executive order stripping birthright citizenship from millions of U.S.-born children on the grounds that the 14th ...

Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Elena Kagan each asked Sauer why he didn’t urge the high court to rule on whether Trump’s executive order limiting birthright citizenship was constitutional.

Solicitor General D. John Sauer is representing the Trump administration in urging the court to allow Trump’s restrictions on birthright citizenship to take effect in at least 27 states.

Several members of the nation's highest court have questioned whether individual judges should be able to enjoin the entire government.

Still, Sauer may walk away with a narrow win. The central dispute yesterday morning was not about the birthright-citizenship order itself.

Birthright citizenship is an odd case to use to scale back nationwide injunctions, Justice Elena Kagan said. “Every court has ruled against you,” she told Sauer.

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan ridiculed President Donald Trump’s challenges to judicial injunctions and birthright citizenship on Thursday, telling the administration it has its strategy all ...

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on an issue that courts have not questioned in more than a century: birthright citizenship. NPR's Ari Shapiro discusses the case with law professor Amanda Frost.

The decision by Mr. Trump’s legal eagles to bundle the constitutionality of nationwide injunctions together with the birthright citizenship question could pay off even if the justices decline to ...