An expert addresses concerns from different rules for different states to a change in how rulings can be challenged
The US supreme court opinion on Friday in a case challenging Donald Trump’s attempt to unilaterally end the country’s longstanding tradition of birthright citizenship doesn’t actually rule on the constitutionality of the president’s order.
That question – of whether the president can do away with a right guaranteed by the the fourteenth amendment to the US constitution – is still being debated in the lower courts. Instead, the supreme court focused on the question of whether individual district court judges could block federal policies nationwide.