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

As it pushes to implement a plan to end birthright citizenship, the Trump administration is counting on an argument about out-of-control federal judges to prove irresistible to some Supreme Court conservatives.

South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson joined 18 other statesin filing a friend-of-the-court brief in the U.S. Court of Appealssupporting President Trum