The majority conservative US Supreme Court set on Thursday, April 17, on May 15, a hearing on the decree of President Donald Trump aimed at abolishing soil law in the United States.
Seized on March 13 by the Trump administration who asked him to intervene in the legal battle on this controversial decree and to suspend decisions of lower jurisdictions, the Supreme Court had given the opposing parties three weeks to respond to this appeal.
In a brief decision Thursday, she sets an hearing for May 15 and for the moment rejects the request for suspension presented by the executive of federal appeal court decisions.
As of January 20, his inauguration day, President Donald Trump signed one of the most critical decrees of his new mandate.
Soil law is a principle devoted by the 14th amendment to the United States Constitution, applied for more than 150 years.
The presidential decree was quickly challenged in justice and its application was suspended throughout the American territory by several courts and federal appeal courses.
An “epidemic”
The administration of the Republican President therefore asked the Supreme Court to limit the scope of these decisions to the only persons directly concerned, namely those who have seized justice. She denounces a ” epidemic “ of national suspensions pronounced by the courts since the start of Donald Trump’s new mandate.
At least, the Trump administration urges the Supreme Court to allow federal agencies to develop and publish directives as to the application of the presidential decree, which is not for the moment authorized.
The decree prohibits the federal government from issuing passports, citizenship certificates or other documents to children whose mother illegally or temporarily stays in the United States, and whose father is not an American citizen or permanent resident-holder of the famous green card.
Children are also targeted whose parents are temporarily residing in the United States thanks to a student, work or tourism visa.
By signing this decree on January 20, Donald Trump himself admitted to expect disputes before the courts. He had also qualified soil law in principle « ridicule »and falsely asserted that the United States would be “The only” to apply it.
