The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to take up a case on President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship.

The justices will hear Trump’s appeal of a lower-court ruling that stopped him from implementing the order, which said children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens.

The case, which was partially presented before the justices earlier this year, will be argued sometime in the spring and a decision in the case will be issued before the end of the court’s term in June 2026.

Trump signed the order on his second day back in office in January. The executive order sought to reinterpret the constitutional language that gives citizenship to nearly every child that is born in the U.S., regardless of their pa

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