(CNN) — The Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide if President Donald Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship with an executive order is constitutional, offering the justices an opportunity to revisit what has widely been considered settled law since the 19th Century.

By granting the appeal, the court is directly taking on the merits of a controversy that it largely avoided earlier this year, when it sided with Trump on technical grounds dealing with how the challenges to the policy were handled by lower courts.

Cecillia Wang, national legal director for the American Civil Liberties Union said the organization looks forward to the Supreme Court “putting this issue to rest once and for all.”

“The federal courts have unanimously held that President Trump’s executive order is co

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