NEWS: The Supreme Court allows Trump’s plan to limit birthright citizenship to move forward—for now. The justices didn’t rule on the policy itself but lifted nationwide blocks, letting it take effect in states that didn’t sue to stop it.

The U.S. Supreme Court wrestled on Thursday over Donald Trump’s attempt to broadly enforce his executive order to restrict birthright citizenship, a move that would affect thousands of babies born each year as the Republican president seeks a major shift in how the U.S.

Constitution has long been understood. The court’s conservative justices, who hold a 6-3 majority, seemed willing to limit the ability of lower courts to issue nationwide, or “universal,” injunctions,

The court’s conservative justices, who hold a 6-3 majority, seemed willing to limit the ability of lower courts to issue nationwide, or “universal,” injunctions, as federal judges in Maryland, Washington and Massachusetts did to block Mr. Trump’s directive. None of the justices, however, signalled an endorsement of Mr.

Trump’s order and some of the liberals said it violates the Constitution and the court’s own precedents.