Donald Trump took the fight over his attempt to restrict automatic U.S. birthright citizenship to the Supreme Court on Thursday as the Republican president's administration asked the justices to narrow a judicial block imposed on this key element of his hardline approach toward immigration.

President Donald Trump’s administration asked the Supreme Court in a series of emergency appeals Thursday to allow him to move forward with plans to end birthright citizenship, elevating a fringe legal theory that several lower courts have resoundingly rejected.

The Trump administration on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to narrow nationwide injunctions that blocked his plan to end automatic birthright citizenship.

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to stop appeals court rulings that blocked Trump’s order to end birthright citizenship, which would deny U.S. citizenship to children born in the U.S. if their parents are undocumented or on temporary visas.

The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to allow restrictions on birthright citizenship to partly take effect while legal fights play out

A third appellate court has upheld a block on President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting birthright citizenship.

President Donald Trump's order to halt automatic citizenship for children born to parents in the country without legal authorization is blocked again.