India, May 15 -- The US Supreme Court on Thursday heard its first set of arguments regarding the executive order by President Donald Trump on birthright citizenship.

The case stems from the executive order that Trump issued on his first day in office that would deny citizenship to children born on US soil to parents who are in the country illegally or temporarily.

The executive order marks a major change to the provision of the 14th Amendment that grants citizenship to people born in the United States, with just a couple of exceptions.

The Supreme Court is taking up emergency appeals filed by the Trump administration asking to be able to enforce the executive order in most of the country, at least while lawsuits over the order proceed....