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Supreme Court to Hear Arguments in Birthright Citizenship Case
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4:47Now PlayingBloomberg's Sara Forden breaks down what is at risk with a challenge to birthright citizenship set to appear before the Supreme Court. She also talks the latest on the antitrust case against Google, as a judge rules that the tech giant monopolized some ad markets.
The US Supreme Court said it will hear arguments on President Donald Trump’s bid to start enforcing an executive order that would restrict automatic birthright citizenship and upend a longstanding constitutional right.
The court said Thursday it will keep Trump’s restrictions on hold in advance of the May 15 argument. The case won’t directly concern the validity of the new restrictions and will instead center on the reach of three rulings that blocked implementation of the executive order nationwide.
Trump and the Justice Department are asking the high court to limit those rulings to particular people connected to the cases, or to the states and other jurisdictions that sued. That would let the administration press ahead with the new policy more broadly.
The Jan. 20 executive order seeks to jettison what has been the widespread understanding that the Constitution’s 14th Amendment confers citizenship on virtually everyone born on US soil.
Trump would restrict that to babies with at least one parent who is a US citizen or green card holder, meaning that even the newborn children of people legally in the country on temporary visas wouldn’t become Americans. The executive order tells federal agencies not to issue citizenship-based documents — including Social Security cards and passports — to babies who don’t meet the new criteria.
Trump’s executive order is being challenged by immigrant-rights organizations, affected individuals and 22 Democratic-run states plus the District of Columbia. In each case, a federal appeals court refused to intervene after a trial judge blocked the executive order nationwide.
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