United States: Thursday sees the Supreme Court hear arguments from the Trump administration on the constitutional part that grants the United States citizenship to babies who are born here.
However, most of the arguments will probably deal with a legal issue regarding nationwide injunctions that could make bringing lawsuits against Trump’s policies very challenging and time-consuming.
After the Civil War ended, the Fourteenth Amendment was passed to counter the Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision, which stated that Black people would never be considered citizens of the US.
According to the amendment, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States,” npr.org reported.
Birthright citizenship has usually been regarded as outside the mainstream of legal analysis.
A once-fringe theory on birthright citizenship comes to the Supreme Court
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This is true since 127 years ago, the Court made a unanimous ruling against freedom of contract.
On top of this, Congress decided to legislate birthright citizenship in 1940 for any child born in the United States.
President Trump has stated for a long time that the Constitution does not cover birthright citizenship.
This meant that on his second day in office, he signed an executive order ensuring that the children of illegal and temporary visa immigrants in the United States are not granted citizenship upon birth.
Immigrant rights groups, as well as 22 states, quickly filed cases against Trump’s order in court.
After that, three federal judges, conservative and liberal, have said that the Trump executive order is “blatantly unconstitutional.”
Three separate appeals courts have denied lifting the ban on those orders while the appeals take place.
However, few people support Trump’s side.
A senior fellow at the conservative Manhattan Institute, Robert Verbruggen, said at a conservative Federalist event that birthright citizenship is “a weird policy we most likely have to keep.”
