Today is the final day for the supreme court to lay out the last rulings of its nine-month term
Today, the US supreme court is due to rule on one of Trump’s core policies: the right of almost anyone born on US soil to have citizenship. The right is enshrined in the 14th amendment to the US constitution. The amendment was passed after the US civil war to determine the citizenship of American-born people who had been enslaved.
Signing a presidential executive order on the first day of his second term in office, Trump is attempting to withhold citizenship from the children of undocumented immigrants and some temporary US visitors. His administration has argued that birthright citizenship stems from a misunderstanding of the 14th amendment.
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