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Story · April 17, 2025

Supreme Court Puts Trump Birthright-Citizenship Stay Requests on Hold for May 15 Argument

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Correction: Correction: The Supreme Court did not rule on the merits of the birthright-citizenship stay requests on April 17; it deferred them and set the consolidated applications for oral argument on May 15, 2025.

The Supreme Court on Thursday, April 17, 2025, put the Trump administration’s emergency requests in three birthright-citizenship cases on pause and set them for oral argument instead of ruling immediately. In a one-page order, the court said consideration of the partial-stay applications in Trump v. CASA, Trump v. Washington, and Trump v. New Jersey was deferred pending oral argument. The applications were consolidated, and the court allotted one hour for argument at 10 a.m. on Thursday, May 15, 2025.

The order does not decide whether the administration can enforce its challenged birthright-citizenship policy. It leaves the stay requests unresolved until the justices hear argument next month.

That April 17 order is separate from an April 9 emergency order in Trump v. Wilcox. In that case, Chief Justice John Roberts stayed two district court orders from the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and set a response deadline of April 15, 2025, at 5 p.m. EDT. The Wilcox order was not part of the birthright-citizenship docket the court addressed on April 17.

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