US EditionU.S. Supreme Court to examine birthright citizenship Wednesday
The justices will weigh a challenge to Trump’s order after lower courts blocked it, with as many as 250,000 babies a year potentially affected, Reuters reported.
- On Wednesday, the Supreme Court hears oral arguments in Trump v. Barbara, challenging President Donald Trump's January 20, 2025 executive order that seeks to end birthright citizenship for children born to parents present illegally or temporarily.
- President Trump signed Executive Order 14160 on his first day back in office, asserting the 14th Amendment's 'subject to the jurisdiction thereof' clause does not automatically grant citizenship to children of parents without legal status.
- Citing the 1898 Supreme Court precedent in United States v. Wong Kim Ark, lower courts have uniformly blocked the policy, ruling birthright citizenship applies to children of non-citizens domiciled in the United States.
- Implementation could create a 'tidal wave of legal confusion and chaos,' according to Jill Habig, CEO of Public Rights Project, potentially affecting more than one-quarter of a million babies born annually.
- A final decision from the Supreme Court is expected by late June or early July, determining whether birthright citizenship will be upheld or restricted under the 14th Amendment's citizenship clause.
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Trump in room as US Supreme Court hears arguments on birthright citizenship - listen live
The US Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments on whether some children born in the US have a constitutional right to citizenship. The case stems from an executive order Donald Trump signed on his first day in office. Listen live.
DOJ on birthright case: Constitution does not mean what it says
WASHINGTON—Pundits are saying President Donald Trump is likely to lose his appeal to the Supreme Court in a case over his executive order taking away the right of automatic birthright citizenship spelled out in the U.S. Constitution. The Department of Justice is pursuing the case anyway, though, because the administration sees political benefits even if it loses. By grandstanding before the Supreme Court Trump lawyers, observers note, Trump aims…
Supreme Court To Decide If 14th Amendment Says What It Says
You know what they say: If at first you don’t succeed (in convincing the Supreme Court that your bigoted, nativist, xenophobic interpretation of the Citizenship Clause in the 14th Amendment is the correct one despite a century and a half of scholarship that refutes you), try, try again!Today, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in Trump v. Barbara, a challenge to an Executive Order that Trump signed on his first day back in office a year ago. …
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