The Trump administration is on course for a potential constitutional clash with the judiciary branch, which has issued several rulings countering executive orders.

The Trump administration is appealing efforts by two judges to investigate whether government officials defied their rulings over the deportation of migrants to El Salvador, escalating a confrontation between the executive and judicial branches.

The U.S. Supreme Court said on Thursday it will hear arguments next month over Donald Trump's bid to broadly enforce his executive order to restrict automatic birthright citizenship, a key pillar of the Republican president's hardline approach toward immigration.

The executive order, signed on January 20 during Trump's return to office, directs federal agencies to deny citizenship to children born in the United States unless at least one parent is a US citizen.