
The president’s preferred litigator led the administration’s defense of an executive order to limit birthright citizenship, but justices pressed skeptical questions that left the administration’s position facing an uphill battle. That contest is part of a broader docket of high-stakes immigration cases, including the challenge to ending temporary protected status for Haitians, which has drawn extra public interest because of a justice’s adoptions from Haiti. Together, these cases demonstrate both legal and political headwinds for the administration’s immigration agenda.
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