The Supreme Court on Thursday deferred a request from President Donald Trump that would have allowed him to immediately enforce a plan to end birthright citizenship against all but a handful of individuals,

The case is the first challenge to the new administration's policies that the justices have taken up for public discussion.

The U.S. Supreme Court said on Thursday it will hear arguments over Donald Trump's bid to broadly enforce his executive order to restrict automatic birthright citizenship. The justices did not immediately act on a request by Trump's administration to narrow the scope of three nationwide injunctions issued by federal judges in Washington state,