Trump, Supreme Court and Birthright Citizenship
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The Trump administration came to the Supreme Court on Thursday with what it called a “modest” request in its effort to end the constitutional right of birthright citizenship.
All but two countries in the Americas grant automatic birthright citizenship to people born within their borders, but that isn't the norm everywhere.
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Federal courts have so far uniformly blocked President Donald Trump’s order seeking to end birthright citizenship for children born in the United States to someone in the country illegally.
A Guatemalan woman who gave birth in Arizona shortly after crossing the border puts a human face on the topic of automatic citizenship for her baby.
How the high court responds will affect not only whether birthright citizenship will be scaled back at least temporarily, but also if it will be harder for judges to pause other Trump policies.
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Norman Wong, whose great-grandfather brought the landmark case that enshrined birthright citizenship, says the new fight over the issue is "for the soul of our country."
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Supreme Court justices appeared to be skeptical of the push to end birthright citizenship. Bruce Springsteen’s criticisms of Donald Trump last week appear to have triggered the president even further,