The Trump administration is urging the Supreme Court to green-light President Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship, a doctrine that has long guaranteed.
The Trump administration is urging the Supreme Court to green-light President Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship, a doctrine that has long guaranteed citizenship to anyone born on US soil. The policy, issued on Trump’s first day back in office, has been tangled in litigation and blocked by lower courts. In a recent set of petitions, government lawyers contend that the 14th Amendment’s citizenship clause was meant for freed slaves and their children—not for the children of undocumented immigrants or temporary visitors, per the New York Times.
