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.

The administration is asking the Supreme Court for an emergency intervention limiting the power of lower court rulings.

The Trump administration is pushing for the the U.S. Supreme Court to allow some restrictions on birthright citizenship even as legal battles continue over President Donald Trump’s orders to end what has long been seen as a constitutional promise.

President Donald Trump’s administration asked the Supreme Court in a series of emergency appeals Thursday to allow him to move forward with plans to end birthright citizenship, elevating a fringe legal theory that several lower courts have resoundingly rejected.

Trump administration lawyers asked the justices to limit the sweep of decisions by three lower courts that issued nationwide pauses on the policy.

Trump administration lawyers argue that district judges should not be allowed to issue rulings that apply nationwide.

The Supreme Court signaled Friday it will review the Trump administration’s request to press forward with ending birthright citizenship. The Trump administration filed a trio of legal appeals regarding birthright citizenship to the country’s highest court on Thursday.

The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to allow restrictions on birthright citizenship to partly take effect while legal fights play out.

Judges in Maryland, Massachusetts and Washington have issued nationwide orders blocking President Donald Trump’s executive order to ban birthright citizenship.

The Trump administration on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to narrow nationwide injunctions that blocked his plan to end automatic birthright citizenship.