US EditionEnding Birthright Citizenship Will Mostly Affect US Citizens
- On May 15, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Washington, D.C., on a Trump administration executive order limiting birthright citizenship.
- The order aims to deny citizenship to children born to parents who are not U.S. Citizens or legal residents, challenging the 14th Amendment's established interpretation since 1898.
- If upheld, the order will impose new bureaucratic burdens on American citizen parents and could create a significant population of stateless children despite opposition from liberal justices and public protests.
- Nearly 40 nationwide injunctions currently limit enforcement of the order, with Justice Barrett and Gorsuch questioning if removing such injunctions allows unlawful orders to persist.
- The ruling could reshape birthright citizenship, potentially restricting a right that has existed for 125 years and mostly affecting average Americans rather than only undocumented immigrants.
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John Snyder: Ending birthright citizenship will mostly affect US citizens
The Trump administration’s executive order to limit birthright citizenship is a serious challenge to the 14th Amendment, which enshrined a radical principle of our democratic experiment: that anyone born here is an American. But the order will most affect average Americans — whose own citizenship, until this point, has been presumed and assured — rather than the intended target, illegal immigrants. The irony is hiding in plain sight. Contrary to…
Law: The battle over birthright citizenship
President Trump is hoping that "a bit of legal chicanery" will let him shred birthright citizenship, said Stephen I. Vladeck in The New York Times. Three federal judges have barred the administration from enforcing his January executive order, which—in a clear violation of the 14th Amendment—would deny U.S. citizenship to the children of undocumented migrants. But during oral arguments at the Supreme Court last week, administration lawyers didn'…
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The Courier-TimesEnding birthright citizenship will mostly affect US citizens
Contrary to conventional wisdom, birthright citizenship is not entirely settled U.S. law.
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