Before the court are the Trump administration's emergency appeals of lower court orders putting nationwide holds on the Republican president's push to deny citizenship to children born to people who are in the United States without proper documentation.

The Supreme Court appeared ready Thursday to place some limits on the power of district judges to freeze presidential actions nationwide.

The justices are considering whether to limit the authority of federal judges to issue nationwide injunctions that have blocked key parts of the Trump agenda until they can be heard in court.