US EditionSupreme Court agrees to decide if Trump may end birthright citizenship
The Supreme Court will examine the constitutionality of Trump's executive order restricting birthright citizenship, potentially overturning a 127-year legal precedent under the 14th Amendment.
- On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review President Donald Trump's executive order limiting birthright citizenship and will hear arguments next year, likely deciding by the end of June.
- Rooted in a narrower reading of the 14th Amendment, Solicitor General D. John Sauer argues the 'subject to the jurisdiction thereof' clause covers only children who bear allegiance, as Trump seeks to restore the Clause's original meaning.
- Lower courts have already ruled the executive order unlawful and it has not been implemented since Jan. 20, with the American Civil Liberties Union representing two babies who would be subject to the order.
- A ruling for the administration would upend a longstanding tenet of the 14th Amendment and U.S. immigration law, marking the high court's first full merits consideration of the plan this year.
- Despite being considered fringe by many conservatives, the dispute will draw considerable public focus to the Court term as legal observers note the court's conservative majority often avoids clashes with President Donald Trump.
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Since the 19th century, U.S. citizens have become citizens of who was born in the USA. That's what the U.S. Constitution says. Donald Trump has changed this by order. Now the Supreme Court has to decide.
The Supreme Court has announced this Friday that it will decide whether Donald Trump’s attempt to end citizenship by birth by means of an executive order is constitutional. Judges will hear the president’s appeal against a lower court ruling that overturned the decree withdrawing the right to acquire citizenship—guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution since the 19th century—to the children of immigrants who are in the country irregularly or temporar…
Those who are born in the United States are granted citizenship. This is a right that is ultimately based on the Constitution of the United States. President Trump questions the principle. The juridical tug of war therefore now ends up before the Supreme Court.
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