This article was updated on March 14 at 2:34 p.m. The Trump administration on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to allow it to enforce an executive order signed by President Donald Trump ending birthright citizenship – the guarantee of citizenship to virtually anyone born in the United States.

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.