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(WASHINGTON) -- The Supreme Court on Thursday said it would hear expedited oral arguments next month over President Donald Trump's emergency request to rollback nationwide injunctions against his executive order to end birthright citizenship.

The nation's highest court set arguments for May 15 at 10 a.m.

The move by the justices sets the stage for a decision by this summer on three separate district court injunctions that had blocked the administration from moving forward with its plan to create a new standard for establishing citizenship to children born on U.S. soil to parents who do not have permanent legal status.

Trump had asked the Supreme Court to allow the administration to, at the very least, begin planning for the change. He also took aim at the universal lower court mandates that he argued exceeded their authority.

"This Court should declare that enough is enough before district courts’ burgeoning reliance on universal injunctions becomes further entrenched," Trump's acting solicitor general wrote in the application. "The Court should stay the district courts’ preliminary injunctions except as to the individual plaintiffs and the identified members of the organizational plaintiffs (and, if the Court concludes that States are proper litigants, as to individuals who are born or reside in those States)."

"At a minimum, the Court should stay the injunctions to the extent they prohibit agencies from developing and issuing public guidance regarding the implementation of the Order. Only this Court’s intervention can prevent universal injunctions from becoming universally acceptable," she added.

While the immediate issue is the scope of the injunctions, it's also possible the justices wade into the substance of Trump's executive order itself and the constitutionality of birthright citizenship, which was enshrined in the 14th Amendment and been repeatedly upheld by high court precedent.

Four separate district courts and three federal appeals courts have kept the Trump policy on hold during litigation, finding it very likely unconstitutional.

Earlier this month, a coalition of states and immigrant advocates had asked the Supreme Court to reject Trump's emergency request to rollback a nationwide injunction against his executive order ending birthright citizenship.

"Being directed to follow the law as it has been universally understood for over 125 years is not an emergency warranting the extraordinary remedy of a stay," they wrote. "This Court should deny the federal government’s request. Many aspects of constitutional interpretation are hotly debated, but not the merits question in this case. For over a century, it has been the settled view of this Court, Congress, the Executive Branch, and legal scholars that the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause guarantees citizenship to babies born in the United States regardless of their parents’ citizenship, “allegiance,” “domicile,” immigration status, or nationality."

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(WASHINGTON) -- Attorneys for a Venezuelan man who is currently imprisoned in a notorious Salvadoran prison filed a habeas petition on Wednesday, asking a federal judge to order the immediate release of their client.

Instead of deporting Edicson David Quintero Chacon to Venezuela, the government is "paying" for his "torture in El Salvador with U.S. taxpayer dollars in flagrant violation of the United States Constitution," his attorneys said in the filing.

According to the habeas petition, on June 13, 2024, Quintero Chacon went to his routine check-in with Immigration and Customs Enforcement in North Carolina where he was detained and taken into custody and transferred to a detention center in Georgia. Then, in September 2024, an immigration judge ordered him removed from the U.S. to Venezuela.

On February 10, 2025, he filed a habeas petition challenging his detention in Georgia, saying he "was not fighting [his] case anymore" and that he "just wanted to go home."

A month later, after being transferred to a detention center in Texas, Quintero Chacon was put on one of the first flights to El Salvador with more than a hundred other Venezuelan migrants.

"Mr. Quintero’s continuing detention—now approaching a year—is lawless," his attorneys said in the petition. "There is no statutory authority that could possibly justify his continued custody under or by color of the authority of the U.S. government, let alone at CECOT."

The government’s decision to transfer Quintero Chacon to CECOT, his attorneys said, "will amount to an effective life sentence—and possibly a death sentence."

Quintero Chacon’s attorneys said in the filing that he has not been charged with or convicted of a crime in any country.

"He is a loving husband, father of two small children, brother, and son, and a skilled carpenter and fisherman," his attorneys said in the petition.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security did not respond to a request for comment on the habeas petition and questions about Quintero Chacon.

In a 5-4 decision earlier this month, the Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration could resume deportations of alleged Venezuelan gang members under the Alien Enemies Act, but said detainees must be given due process to challenge their removal.

Attorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union said on Wednesday they plan to refile more than a hundred habeas claims in Washington for the men who were deported on March 15.

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(WASHINGTON) -- Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., said he was blocked Thursday from entering the El Salvador prison that is holding the Maryland resident whom the courts say was erroneously deported from the United States last month.

The Maryland senator, who flew to the country on Wednesday, shared a video on social media showing guards stopping him and others from entering CECOT, where Kilmar Abrego Garcia is being held.

The Supreme Court and a Maryland federal judge ordered that the U.S. government "facilitate" Abrego Garcia's return to the U.S. after the Department of Justice said in court filings that the 29-year-old father was wrongfully deported because of an "administrative error." The Trump administration has alleged it cannot bring him back and claimed outside of court that Abrego Garcia is a member of the MS-13 gang.

Van Hollen was joined by Chris Newman, who he said is the attorney for Abrego Garcia's wife and mother, and said they are trying to check on the deported man's condition.

The video also showed Van Hollen and Newman speaking to prison guards, who were visibly shaking their heads "no."

"These soldiers were ordered to prevent us from going any farther from this spot," Van Hollen said. "I understand we're about three kilometers now from CECOT, and as you can see, they're letting other cars go by, but they stopped us because they're under orders not to allow us to proceed to check on the well-being of Kilmar Abrego Garcia."

Over the last couple of weeks, Republican members of Congress have gained access to the prison and posted pictures on their social media pages from inside the complex.

Van Hollen later told reporters that he made his request to visit the prison to the U.S. Embassy, which then passed the request to El Salvador's government.

The senator said he also asked El Salvador's vice president on Wednesday to visit the facility.

"I emphasized my goal was to check on his health and well-being," he said.

The senator also said the prisoner has had no contact with anyone outside of CECOT, which he said is a violation of international law.

"El Salvador is a party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. El Salvador has signed and ratified that covenant, and that covenant says, and I quote, 'A detained or imprisoned person shall be entitled to communicate and consult with his legal counsel,'" Van Allen told reporters.

The White House slammed Van Hollen for making the trip and advocating for Abrego Garcia on Wednesday. The administration and the DOJ have claimed with little evidence, that Abrego Garcia is a gang member.

The Justice Department has not charged Abrego Garcia with any gang-related crimes and his alleged MS-13 membership has been disputed in court.

A federal judge and the Supreme Court ordered the government to take all available steps to facilitate the return of Abrego Garcia to the U.S., and on Wednesday, the DOJ filed a notice that it is appealing.

The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied the Trump administration's request on Thursday.

President Donald Trump weighed in on the situation on Thursday and claimed he isn't involved.

"I was elected to get rid of those criminals, to get them out of our count,ry or to put them away, but to get them out of our country. And I don't see how judges can take that authority away from a president," he told reporters.

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