Trump Takes Birthright Citizenship Fight to Supreme Court as Justices Hear Arguments
The president floated a visit as he jawbones the integrities to end automatic nationality for those born on U.S. soil.
Donald Trump escalates the birthright citizenship debate by taking the legal battle to the Supreme Court, as justices hear arguments on one of the most contentious immigration issues in the United States.
Donald Trump said he plans to attend Wednesday’s Supreme Court of the United States hearing, where justices will hear arguments on his birthright citizenship executive order.
On Tuesday, Trump told reporters that “I’m going. “I think so. I do believe.”
The presence of a sitting leader at the high court during oral advice would be a first, as per the historians. However, Trump has earlier flirted with attending oral arguments before course reversing. In the last October, he said he planned to attend fights for his so-called Liberation Day tariffs. However, he again backed down. He is expected to lose the care by 6-3.
Talking to reporters in the Oval Office, Trump once again repeated his argument that the Constitution’s 14th Amendment was just planned to provide citizenship to the children of former slaves and was not planned to apply to virtually anybody born on U.S. soil. The consensus of constitutional scholars and legal precedents refutes his view.
The Trump administration said, “Everything having to do with birthright citizenship, it was at the end of the Civil War. The reason was that it had to do with the babies of slaves and the protection of the babies of slaves. It didn’t have to do with the protection of multi-millionaires and billionaires wanting to have their children get an American citizenship.”
On his initial day back in office last year, Trump signed an executive order that looked to deny the federal advantages, such as passports, to children born in the U.S. to undocumented immigrants and those with limited-duration visas. He argued that the prospect of automatic birthright citizenship, allows illegal immigration and so-called birth tourism. The families can arrange to have their kids while visiting the U.S.
