Trump to attend supreme court arguments on landmark birthright citizenship case - US politics live

Court case will weigh the constitutionality of his contentious bid to end birthright citizenship

US supreme court to weigh whether Trump can deny birthright citizenship

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Ahead of the oral arguments at the supreme court today on the Trump administration’s attempts to restrict birthright citizenship, it’s worth noting a how the concept of children born on US soil being considered American citizens came to be.

In this particular case – Trump v Barbara – the challengers also argue that the president’s efforts run afoul of the citizenship clause of the fourteenth amendment, which was ratified after the Civil war, to overturn the supreme court’s Dredd Scott decision of 1857. This ruling that stated enslaved people were not citizens of the US, and therefore were not entitled to protection from the federal government.