The Supreme Court decided to hear arguments about whether kids born on US soil automatically become citizens, which stems from Trump trying to reinterpret the 14th Amendment. His executive order, back when he started his second term, said the government should stop giving citizenship documents to babies whose moms were here illegally or temporarily, unless the dad had legal status. Courts kept blocking the order throughout the year, with judges in New Hampshire and Seattle saying it violated constitutional protections.
The ACLU is representing plaintiffs in the case and said no president gets to mess with what the 14th Amendment guarantees. The citizenship clause has been understood since a 1898 ruling about a Chinese-American born in San Francisco to mean basically everyone born here becomes a citizen, with only narrow exceptions.
The ACLU is representing plaintiffs in the case and said no president gets to mess with what the 14th Amendment guarantees. The citizenship clause has been understood since a 1898 ruling about a Chinese-American born in San Francisco to mean basically everyone born here becomes a citizen, with only narrow exceptions.
