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On March 13, the Trump administration launched a series of emergency appeals to the Supreme Court for a partial stay on court rulings blocking his birthright citizenship order, arguing that the judges ...

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Their argument for denying birthright citizenship to children of undocumented immigrants born in the US has multiple weaknesses, including that it would also have denied it to former slaves.

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to limit nationwide injunctions blocking the president’s plan to end automatic birthright citizenship, according to NBC News. Acting Solicitor ...

If you were born in America, citizenship is your birthright. You promised to end birthright citizenship on day one. Is that still your plan? Yes, absolutely. We're going to end that because it's ...