How the modern Supreme Court might view the 14th Amendment and birthright citizenship
In the few days since he returned to the White House, President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive orders and mass pardons have shattered political and legal norms. But one order is in a category of its own.
Trump administration defends his birthright citizenship order in court for the first time
Justice Department lawyers will defend President Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at limiting birthright citizenship in federal court Thursday — the first action in what promises to be a protracted legal battle over the new administration’s agenda.
A Line-by-Line Breakdown of Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Executive Order
“Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship”—better known as the birthright citizenship executive order —attempts to cancel the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution. Getting rid of constitutional amendments via executive order is new, and, for me at least, “the worst.”
What the 14th Amendment says about birthright citizenship
President Donald Trump is seeking to end birthright citizenship, a constitutional right enshrined by the 14th Amendment. We asked two experts in constitutional and immigration law to walk us through what the amendment says,
Supreme Court likely to decide whether a president can end birthright citizenship
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court will likely decide whether President Donald Trump can end birthright citizenship via executive order, legal scholars and attorneys tell WFAA.
President Trump's Executive Order to reverse Birthright Citizenship sparks legal challenges
In a significant legal challenge CASA has filed a lawsuit against President Trump regarding his recent executive order aimed at reversing birthright citizenship.
A bid to block Trump's cancellation of birthright citizenship is in federal court
A federal judge is set to hear the first arguments in a multi-state lawsuit seeking to block President Donald Trump’s executive order ending the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship rega
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.
Judge to consider challenge to Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship
President Trump's executive order challenging birthright citizenship will face its first legal test in a Seattle courtroom Thursday.
'Unlawful and unconstitutional': 22 Dem AGs sue over Trump's birthright citizenship order
Democratic California Attorney General Rob Bonta joins Chris Jansing to discuss how he and 21 other state attorneys general are fighting back against what they call President Trump’s “unconstitutional” executive order.
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Ron DeSantis doesn’t think current SCOTUS subscribes to Donald Trump take on birthright citizenship
DeSantis isn’t necessarily confident that the current court would support his and Trump’s view on birthright citizenship ...
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Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
This Supreme Court decision attempted to settle the legal status of slaves in free territories to avert a civil war, but it provoked one instead. Dred Scott, who was born a slave in Missouri ...
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Attorney-General Bates on the Dred Scott Decision.
This is equivalent to declaring that black men map be citizens of the United States, and that the dicta to the contrary in the Dred Scott case are incorrect. We say the dicta and not the ...