The right-wing justices on Thursday were amenable to the Trump administration’s bid to pare back universal injunctions, a type of relief where lower-court judges block government policies for the whole country and not just the parties who brought the case.

President Donald Trump ranted against the U.S. and its centuries-long tradition of birthright citizenship, saying the U.S. is a “STUPID Country” of “SUCKERS,” as the Supreme Court prepared to take up the issue Thursday.

Federal courts have so far uniformly blocked President Donald Trump’s order seeking to end birthright citizenship for children born in the United States to someone in the country illegally.

Norman Wong, whose great-grandfather brought the landmark case that enshrined birthright citizenship, says the new fight over the issue is "for the soul of our country."