States, Parents Respond To High Court Petitions In Birthright Citizenship Cases

( October 30, 2025, 10:55 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Washington and several other states and individuals and parents representing a class of infants and unborn children filed two responses in the U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 29 to petitions by President Donald J. Trump and other federal government parties seeking a decision on the legality of a January 2025 birthright citizenship executive order (EO); the states argue that the “case fails the Court’s ordinary certiorari criteria” but say they don’t oppose certiorari while the parents do, but add that if review is granted it should be granted in both cases....