Donald Trump, Supreme Court and birthright citizenship
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The 14th Amendment has long been understood to grant American citizenship to anyone born on U.S. soil.
After months of avoiding details about a divisive plan to end birthright citizenship, President Donald Trump’s administration is rolling out a series of new documents that offer a stark glimpse into how it would implement an executive order that upends the century-old understanding about the benefits of being born in the United States.
Ruling in two other lawsuits during the past month may also set back the Trump administration implementation of the measure that bars citizenship to children of undocumented immigrants and temporary foreign visitors.
President Donald Trump has a solid group of constitutional scholars in his corner ready to back his birthright citizenship ban
The Supreme Court's decision to overturn universal injunctions will still mean his executive order is limited.
In May, the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to strip TPS from 350,000 Venezuelans, potentially exposing them to deportation. The order put on hold a ruling from a federal judge in San Francisco that kept the legal protections in place.
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