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In its emergency requests, the Trump administration argued that lower courts had overstepped their bounds by issuing nationwide preliminary injunctions blocking the controversial policy and asked the justices to limit the impact of these rulings.

In January, a federal judge described the executive order as "clearly unconstitutional" and blocked its enforcement. Days later, a judge in Maryland said Trump's plan "contradicts 250 years of our nation's birthright citizenship history."

Appeals courts rejected the Trump administration’s request to halt lower court rulings that had imposed nationwide preliminary injunctions on his executive order, which he signed on the first day of his second term.