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Judge who blocked Trump’s birthright citizenship order wants to do so again

A federal judge who previously blocked President Donald Trump’s effort to end birthright citizenship spent more than an hour Friday grappling with whether his nationwide injunction could stand after the Supreme Court curbed the ability of judges to issue such broad rulings.

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History Shows Why Birthright Citizenship is so Important

In 1898, in the landmark case of U.S. v Wong Kim Ark, the Supreme Court reaffirmed the birthright citizenship guarantee, clarifying that even if one’s parents were legally ineligible for U.S. citizenship, a child born on U.S. soil was a citizen.

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Politico · 19d

Trump Is Wrong About Birthright Citizenship. History Proves It.

As legal experts have explained, the text of the amendment itself disproves Trump’s claim, which the court’s conservatives — who so often extoll the virtues of originalism, interpreting the Constitution based on its meaning at the time it was written — should well know. So does the historical record.

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Trump’s birthright citizenship order remains blocked as lawsuits march on after Supreme Court ruling

A federal judge’s order blocking former President Donald Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship has taken effect. U.S.

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Could 2025 Unravel America’s Promise? The Surprising History and High-Stakes Fight Over Birthright Citizenship

Is America on the verge of rewriting who’s in? That’s the echo sounding through courtrooms and neighborhoods in the wake of ...

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Can U.S. birthright citizenship be overturned? This GSU law professor unequivocally says: No.

Lately, Georgia State University law professor Anthony Michael Kreis has become a go-to source on questions about President Donald Trump’s frenzied efforts to reshape the federal government—the main ...

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What to know about the Supreme Court's birthright citizenship case

The case stems from President Donald Trump's bid to end birthright citizenship, which has been frozen by multiple lower courts. The Supreme Court is not likely to rule on the constitutionality of ...

Opinion

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Trump’s attempts to decide who is ‘American’ is downright un-American

Trump would like us to believe that he is defending the nation’s heritage, but his attempts to weaponize citizenship against critics tell a different story. This is not about ancestry; it’s about ...

Confused about the status of birthright citizenship in the US? Here is what to know

Birthright citizenship remains in effect despite recent court decisions and President Donald Trump's executive order ...

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Rosie O’Donnell Responds to Trump’s Threat to Revoke Her U.S. Citizenship, Brings Epstein Into the Row

Comedian and actor Rosie O’Donnell has responded to President Donald Trump 's threat to have her U.S. citizenship revoked, ...

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Voices: Why birthright citizenship should remain in place

Voices: Birthright citizenship is deeply rooted in Black American history, and it should remain in place We must travel back in time and revisit when the 14th Amendment was created — and for ...

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The Supreme Court’s Birthright Citizenship Ruling Gets History ...

As a result of today’s decision, even if the birthright citizenship revocation policy is ultimately struck down, it will have functioned in the meantime—unimpeded, unremedied, and untouchable ...

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