A legal challenge to birthright citizenship is heading toward the Supreme Court. The case could reshape how the 14th Amendment is applied in immigration law.
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Republican lawmakers filed an amicus brief to the Supreme Court defending President Trump’s executive order on the original meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause. They argue birthright citizenship should be limited to children of lawful residents.
On Friday the Supreme Court agreed to review a case that could finally force a long, overdue reckoning with how the 14th Amendment’s citizenship clause has been interpreted for more than a century.