WASHINGTON—The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to intervene and at least partially roll back multiple preliminary injunctions courts have issued against his executive order to restrict birthright citizenship.
In a brief filed on March 13, Acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris told Chief Justice John Roberts that courts had gone too far in issuing nationwide injunctions. The Supreme Court, she said, should limit two of the injunctions—from Washington state and Maryland—to the order’s effect on particular plaintiffs. Another from Massachusetts should be stayed in full, she said.
