Trump administration lawyers asked the justices to limit the sweep of decisions by three lower courts that issued nationwide pauses on the policy.

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 Justice Department has asked the justices to largely reinstate his executive order ending birthright citizenship, except as to a small group of individuals and organizations that sued over the order.