Barely Stopping Trump’s Assault on Birthright Citizenship
Alarmingly, only five members of the nine-person U.S. Supreme Court found the U.S. president’s executive order revoking birthright citizenship unconstitutional. This is a slender thread.
In a case the U.S. Supreme Court never should have agreed to hear, its members narrowly rejected Donald Trump’s attempt to eviscerate the Citizenship Clause of the U.S. Constitution’s 14th Amendment, which ensures citizenship to virtually every person born in the United States.
Trump signed an executive order on the first day of his second term in which he redefined who is an American for the first time in over 150 years. He sought to deny birthright citizenship to children of parents who are undocumented or in the U.S. on temporary visas for travel, work, school, or humanitarian reasons.
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