The nation's highest court will review legal challenge challenging citizenship by birth.
The top court has will hear a significant case that questions a historic constitutional right: guaranteed citizenship for people born in the United States.
On day one in office this January, the President signed an order aiming to halt this practice, but the action was struck down by the judiciary after lawsuits were brought forward.
The Supreme Court's ultimate decision will ultimately support citizenship rights for the children of migrants who are in the US without authorization or on non-immigrant visas, or it will overturn them entirely.
Next, the justices will calendar a session to hear the case between the administration and claimants, which include immigrant parents and their young children.
The 14th Amendment
For over a century and a half, the 14th Amendment has established the doctrine that anyone born in the nation is a American citizen, with certain exclusions for children born to foreign diplomats and personnel of foreign military forces.
"Every individual born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States."
The disputed presidential order sought to withhold citizenship to the offspring of people who are whether in the US illegally or are in the country on short-term status.
The United States is among about a minority of states – primarily in the Western Hemisphere – that provide instant citizenship to any person born in their territory.
