New Jersey leads 22 states and two cities in appealing cases to the Supreme Court, which will decide whether to bar children from citizenship if their parents are non-citizens.

New Jersey’s lawyer, Jeremy Feigenbaum ... [Amanda Frost: The coming assault on birthright citizenship] Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson were both attracted to an approach along those lines. But several other justices, including ...

The government doesn’t seem to know how it will implement this massive change in policy.

With that in mind, several lawyers said it’s ill-advised for the Supreme Court to use the litigation over birthright citizenship as a vehicle to assess nationwide injunctions. The consequences of nixing or trimming the injunctions in these cases could throw millions of families into uncertainty and disarray, these lawyers say.

Jeremy Feigenbaum, New Jersey’s solicitor general, who is arguing on behalf of states challenging the executive order ending birthright citizenship, said there are no alternatives to universal ...

The Justices on the Supreme Court wrestled on Thursday with a high-stakes case involving birthright citizenship that’s poised to shape both the Trump Administration’s immigration policy and its attempts to expand presidential power.