As it pushes to implement a plan to end birthright citizenship, the Trump administration is counting on an argument about out-of-control federal judges to prove irresistible to some Supreme Court conservatives.

ToplineThe Trump administration asked the Supreme Court Thursday to partially halt court rulings blocking President Donald Trump’s order dismantling birthright citizenship, following a string of court rulings halting the order and other steps taken by Trump and cost-cutting czar Elon Musk.

Trump administration lawyers asked the justices to limit the sweep of decisions by three lower courts that issued nationwide pauses on the policy.