The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit in San Francisco ruled in July that a group of states that sued over the order needed a nationwide injunction to prevent the problems that would be caused by birthright citizenship being in effect in some states and not others.

Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva nominated his government’s top lawyer, a prominent evangelical Christian, to join the Supreme Court in a nod to the fast-growing religious and political constituency.