The constitutionality of President Donald Trump's executive order to curtail automatic birthright citizenship is set to be considered by a U.S. appeals court for the first time on Wednesday, even as the U.

The Trump administration returned to the Supreme Court on Monday to ask the justices to reverse a lower court order that has blocked mass firings and major reorganizations at federal agencies, a case that could have enormous implications for the president’s power to reshape the federal government.

Trump is asking the Supreme Court to let his executive order enabling mass federal layoffs proceed after lower courts blocked it.