The nation's highest court will review legal challenge challenging citizenship by birth.
The top court has will hear a significant case that challenges a century-old guarantee: birthright citizenship for people born within US borders.
On the inaugural day in office this January, the administration issued an executive order aiming to terminate birthright citizenship, but the move was subsequently blocked by the judiciary after legal challenges were brought forward.
The Supreme Court's eventual ruling will either support citizenship rights for the offspring of immigrants who are in the US illegally or on non-immigrant visas, or it will end them entirely.
Next, the justices will calendar a session to hear oral arguments between the administration and claimants, which include foreign-born parents and their infants.
The 14th Amendment
For more than 150 years, the Fourteenth Amendment has established the doctrine that every person born in the United States is a US citizen, with specific conditions for children born to foreign diplomats and members of occupying armies.
"Every individual born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States."
The disputed executive order sought to refuse citizenship to the children of people who are whether in the US in violation of immigration law or are in the country on short-term status.
The United States is among about a minority of states – largely in the North and South America – that award immediate citizenship to any person born on their soil.
