President Trump’s effort to restrict birthright citizenship is one of many aggressive policies that judges have blocked with sweeping orders.

The justices made the unusual decision to hear oral arguments on the broadness of the nationwide injunctions and whether they should only apply to the states, advocacy groups and individuals that had sued over the order.

Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor challenged the Trump administration's view that single federal district courts should be able to issue "nationwide injunctions" blocking executive order with one of her famous counterfactual hypotheticals: JUSTICE SONIA SOTOMAYOR: So when a new president orders...

The Supreme Court has agreed to review Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship for those born in the U.S. to parents of undocumented immigrants or foreign visitors.

On Thursday, the Supreme Court will take up a case that could decide how quickly President Donald Trump can implement his second term agenda as it hears arguments about nationwide injunctions that allow a single judge to block a policy for the entire country.