Donald J. Trump, President of the United States v. Washington
Granted
No. 24A885·Stay application·Filed by the federal government·Presented to Justice Kagan·From United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
What did the Court do?
The Court granted the request on June 27, 2025: the lower court's ruling is on hold while the appeal continues.
Emergency rulings are temporary and do not decide the underlying case.
Filed · Ruled · 106 days after filing
What's being asked
The federal government asks the Supreme Court to partly pause a lower-court order blocking enforcement of President Trump's order on citizenship. That order says some people born in the United States should not be recognized as citizens. Washington, other states, and individuals who sued say the order violates the Constitution and federal law. The government says courts should not block it for people who did not sue.
What the Court did
The Court partly paused orders blocking enforcement (injunctions), limiting them to needed protection for those with the legal right to sue. Barrett and Roberts signed the Court's opinion; Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh concurred (agreed with the result for different reasons). Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson dissented (disagreed); no vote tally was published, and the Court left the citizenship order's legality undecided.
The Court's record names every justice's position.
Filing120 days
Half of 82 rulings on applications where the Court asked for a response came 10 to 26 days after filing, and the median was 17 days; this one was ruled on 106 days after filing.
What it means
This temporary ruling does not decide who wins the citizenship dispute or whether the president's order is lawful. The appeal remains pending in the Ninth Circuit; the Supreme Court heard argument on these applications on May 15, 2025. The docket lists no separate case for a final decision on the main legal question.
Facts on this page come from the Supreme Court docket, orders, and opinions for No. 24A885. The answers restate that record in plain words; explainer copy is written from the record and the filings only.