"The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, passed in the wake of the Civil War as part of Reconstruction, clearly states that 'all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.'"
"For over a century, the Supreme Court has repeatedly upheld the understanding that people born in this country to noncitizen parents are citizens."
"On the very first day of the second Trump administration, Trump fulfilled his and Stephen Miller's longtime blood and soil fantasies by signing an executive order that would link citizenship to the status of a newborn's parents."
"At times during oral argument, Justice Clarence Thomas seemed amenable to that claim, boiled down to what Trump recently referred to on Truth Social, that the clause only applies to 'the BABIES OF SLAVES!'"
The Supreme Court justices indicated a willingness to reject the Trump administration's efforts to revoke birthright citizenship for up to 200,000 individuals annually. President Trump attended the oral arguments, marking a historic moment as the first sitting president to do so. The Fourteenth Amendment guarantees citizenship to all persons born in the U.S., a principle upheld for over a century. Trump's executive order aimed to redefine citizenship based on parental status, a move criticized during the proceedings.
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