To end birthright citizenship, Trump misreads the constitution
America started doing so at the end of the Civil War. The constitution was amended then to overturn the Dred Scott decision of 1857, which held that black people were not Americans. The 14th Amendment ensured that freed slaves and their children would henceforth be citizens.
People claiming the U.S. government would revoke the second lady's citizenship did so with a misunderstanding of a January ...
Trump signed an executive order purporting to rewrite birthright citizenship. That's not how the Constitution works.
There is a common misconception that the Constitution mandates that the US government grant citizenship to everyone born ...
Some legal scholars argue that the amendment was properly ratified, but for Biden to definitively say it’s "the law of the land" ignores precedent and the reality that no federal government entity has ...
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Donald Trump is sworn in as the 47th president of the United States by Chief Justice John Roberts as Melania Trump holds the ...
President Donald Trump set a record on his first day back in office by issuing 26 executive orders, aiming to fulfill many of his campaign promises.
The orders signed at the White House included a directive to end birthright citizenship, a move sure to spark a constitutional fight over the 14th Amendment.
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