WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court will issue its final rulings of its current term on Friday, Chief Justice John Roberts said. It has yet to resolve several important cases, including one involving President Donald Trump’s bid to limit birthright citizenship as well as others involving Obamacare, age verification for online pornography and LGBT story books in elementary schools.
Due to the unusual procedural nature of the birthright citizenship case, which was brought to the court on an emergency basis but was argued before the justices, a decision in that case could be among the court rulings issued on Friday.
Trump signed an executive order to restrict birthright citizenship, a move that would affect thousands of babies born each year in the United States. Federal judges in Maryland, Washington and Massachusetts blocked Trump’s order, finding it likely violates the Constitution’s 14th Amendment citizenship language. The administration is seeking to broadly enforce the directive.
The court also could act at any time in other pending disputes on its emergency docket including Trump’s bids to carry out mass job cuts at federal agencies and gut the Department of Education.
Other cases awaiting rulings include ones involving preventive care under the Obamacare law, opting children out of certain classes in a Maryland school district when storybooks with LGBT characters are read, Louisiana electoral districts and the Federal Communications Commission’s mechanism to fund a multi-billion dollar effort to expand phone and broadband internet access.
(Reporting by Joyhn Kruzel and Andrtew Chung; Editing by Will Dunham)
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