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Justices weigh constitutionality of bid to end birthright citizenship in landmark case that could affect legal status of hundreds of thousands of US babies
US supreme court weighs whether Trump can deny birthright citizenship<\/a>
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We\u2019re starting to get pictures from outside the US supreme court<\/a> ahead of oral arguments in Trump v Barbara, which will decide if the administration\u2019s attempts to restrict birthright citizenship are unconstitutional.
Donald Trump has just arrived, and plans to listen to arguments at the court \u2013\u00a0the first time a sitting president has attended arguments.
Oral arguments have begun, and solicitor general D John Sauer<\/strong> is arguing on behalf of the Trump administration<\/a>. In his opening argument, Sauer notes that the citizenship clause \u2013\u00a0which the challengers say Trump\u2019s executive order violates \u2013\u201cdoes not extend citizenship to the children of temporary visa holders or illegal aliens\u201d<\/strong>.
He adds that unsrestricted birthright citizenship \u201cdemeans the priceless and profound gift of American citizenship\u201d<\/strong>, and suggests that it operates as \u201ca powerful pull factor for illegal immigration and rewards illegal aliens who not only violate the immigration laws, but also jump in front of those who follow the rules\u201d.
Sauer also argues that the established precedent of birthright citizenship has \u201cspawned a sprawling industry of birth tourism\u201d and created \u201ca whole generation of American citizens abroad with no meaningful ties\u201d to the US<\/strong>.
We\u2019re starting to get pictures from outside the US supreme court<\/a> ahead of oral arguments in Trump v Barbara, which will decide if the administration\u2019s attempts to restrict birthright citizenship are unconstitutional.
Donald Trump has just arrived, and plans to listen to arguments at the court \u2013\u00a0the first time a sitting president has attended arguments.
Ahead of the oral arguments at the supreme court today on the Trump administration\u2019s attempts to restrict birthright citizenship, it\u2019s worth noting a how the concept of children born on US soil being considered American citizens came to be.
In this particular case \u2013 Trump v Barbara \u2013 the challengers also argue that the president\u2019s efforts run afoul of the citizenship clause<\/strong> of the fourteenth amendment<\/strong>, which was ratified after the Civil war, to overturn the supreme court\u2019s 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.
The Trump administration argues that it\u2019s not trying to gut birthright citizenship at large, but rather return to the original meaning of the citizenship clause, <\/strong>instead of applying to \u201cthe children of aliens who are temporarily present in the United States\u201d.
On Truth Social<\/a>, Donald Trump claimed that the president of Iran\u2019s new regime<\/strong>, who he characterized as \u201cmuch less Radicalized and far more intelligent than his predecessors\u201d, has asked the US for a ceasefire.<\/strong>
However, Trump said he would only consider the offer when the strait of Hormuz is \u201copen, free and, clear\u201d.
Until then, the president said, \u201cwe are blasting Iran into oblivion or, as they say, back to the Stone Ages!!!\u201d<\/strong>
You can read the latest updates on the Iran war in our live blog on the Middle East crisis:
A reminder that my colleagues are covering the latest developments out of the Middle East, particularly Donald Trump\u2019s comments to The Telegraph that he is considering pulling the US out of Nato. <\/strong>
\u201cI would say [it\u2019s] beyond reconsideration,\u201d Trump said in an interview. \u201cI was never swayed by Nato. I always knew they were a paper tiger, and Putin knows that too, by the way.\u201d<\/strong>
The president has been levelling insults at allies in recent weeks for not helping to reopen the strait of Hormuz<\/strong>, which has been effectively shut down by Iran<\/a> as the Middle East war rages on.
As we noted earlier, Donald Trump will be in Washington today. After he attends oral arguments in the blockbuster birthright citizenship case at the supreme court, he\u2019ll be back at the White House for closed door meetings.
We won\u2019t hear from the president again until 9pm ET<\/strong>, when he addresses the nation with \u201can important update\u201d on the war on Iran.
A former video editor and field producer for Alex Jones\u2019s Infowars has said his work for the notorious conspiracy theorist<\/a> was \u201cnonsense\u201d and \u201clies\u201d, but he kept at it for four years in his 20s because the far-right media company\u2019s founder was a magnetic presence and it earned him good money.<\/strong>
Josh Owens made those revealing remarks in an NPR interview<\/a> published on Tuesday promoting his new memoir about once having been an employee of Jones and Infowars \u2013 a conversation that also detailed the hand he said he had in fabricating a video of an operative of the Islamic State (IS) terror group sneaking into the US from Mexico immediately after a beheading.
\u201cIn Jones\u2019s world, it was all about making things look cinematic,\u201d Owens, who left Infowars in 2017, said to NPR. Likening the aesthetic to that seen in pieces by Vice News, he continued: \u201cWe would go out there, we would shoot videos \u2026 like we were in the weeds, we were showing what was really going on.
\u201cBut it was nonsense. It was lies.\u201d
To illustrate the point to the outlet, Owens recounted how Infowars deployed him to El Paso, Texas, after a conservative website alleged that IS had erected a training base right on the other side of the US-Mexico border, specifically in Ciudad Ju\u00e1rez, Chihuahua.
President Trump cannot unilaterally overturn a constitutional amendment; that requires congressional action.<\/strong>
But the administration is arguing not that they\u2019re overturning the amendment, but rather interpreting it according to its intended meaning.
The Trump administration<\/a> wants the supreme court to reinterpret the amendment and allow the order to be enforced, overriding more than 125 years of legal precedent.
The landmark decision on birthright citizenship, United States v Wong Kim Ark, made clear that a child born to parents of Chinese descent who had permanent \u201cdomicile\u201d in the US would be a US citizen at the time of birth under the 14th amendment.
The Trump administration argues \u201cdomicile\u201d, meaning a permanent residence, is a critical part of the interpretation, despite the word not appearing in the amendment itself.
\u201cBirthright Citizenship was not meant for people taking vacations to become permanent Citizens of the United States of America, and bringing their families with them, all the time laughing at the \u2018SUCKERS\u2019 that we are!\u201d the president wrote on Truth Social last year.
The Supreme Court is expected to rule by the end of June.<\/strong>
The court last year gave Trump an initial victory in the birthright citizenship context in a ruling restricting the power of federal judges to curb presidential policies nationwide.
Though arising from early-stage judicial rulings declaring Trump\u2019s directive unconstitutional, the court\u2019s ruling did not resolve its legality.
The court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, has backed Trump on other major immigration-related policies since he returned to the presidency.
It let Trump expand mass deportation measures on an interim basis while legal challenges play out, such as ending humanitarian protections for migrants or allowing them to be deported to countries where they have no ties.
The administration has said that granting citizenship to virtually anyone born on US soil has created incentives for illegal immigration and led to \u201cbirth tourism,\u201d by which foreigners travel to the United States to give birth and secure citizenship for their children.<\/strong>
An eventual ruling by the supreme court endorsing the administration\u2019s view could affect the legal status of as many as 250,000 babies born each year, according to some estimates, and require the families of millions more to prove the citizenship status of their newborns, Reuters reported.
The 14th amendment was ratified in 1868 in the aftermath of the Civil War of 1861-1865 that ended slavery in the United States, and overturned a notorious 1857 supreme court decision that had declared that people of African descent could never be US citizens. Concord, New Hampshire-based US district judge Joseph Laplante last July let the challenge to Trump\u2019s order by these plaintiffs proceed as a class, allowing the policy to be blocked nationwide.
The challengers have said the supreme court already settled the question of birthright citizenship in an 1898 case called United States v Wong Kim Ark, which recognized that the 14th amendment grants citizenship by birth on US soil, including to the children of foreign nationals.
The administration contends that the 1898 precedent supports Trump\u2019s order because, according to the court\u2019s ruling in that case, at the time of his birth, Wong Kim Ark\u2019s parents had permanent domicile and residence in the United States.
President Donald Trump is expected to watch the US supreme court<\/a> hear a landmark case today weighing the constitutionality of his contentious bid to end birthright citizenship \u2013 an extraordinary and possibly unprecedented move for the nation\u2019s highest office.<\/strong>
Trump signed an executive order on his return to the White House decreeing that children born to parents in the United States illegally or on temporary visas would not automatically become US citizens.
Lower courts blocked the move as unconstitutional, ruling that under the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment nearly everyone born on US soil is an American citizen, AFP reported.
\u201cAll persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States,\u201d the amendment states. It does not apply to persons who are not subject to US jurisdiction \u2013 foreign diplomats, for example, and sovereign Native American tribes.
\u201cI\u2019m going,\u201d Trump told reporters Tuesday when asked about the supreme court hearing. He had attended the investiture ceremony of his first supreme court justice nominee, Neil Gorsuch, in 2017, months into Trump\u2019s first term.
But it would be an exceptional milestone for a sitting president to be present for oral arguments in a case their administration is actively arguing.
The Trump administration<\/a> argues that the 14th amendment, passed in the wake of the 1861-1865 Civil War, addresses the rights to citizenship of former slaves and not the children of undocumented migrants or temporary visitors.
Trump\u2019s executive order is premised on the notion that anyone in the United States illegally, or on a visa, is not \u201csubject to the jurisdiction\u201d of the country and therefore excluded from automatic citizenship.
Trump will attend the supreme court hearing from oral arguments from 10am ET today. He is then due to deliver an update on the Iran war in an address to the nation at 9pm ET.
In other developments:
Trump signed an executive order seeking to restrict mail-in voting across the US with a series of new requirements<\/strong>, including the establishment of a national voter list.
The move was unprecedented and likely unconstitutional, according to experts.<\/strong> The Brennan Center said in response, \u201cHe has no lawful authority to write the rules that govern our elections. He tried a year ago; we sued him; we won. A year later, he has tried again. He can expect the same result.\u201d
Several states and Democratic officials criticized the order, describing it as an illegal attack that amounted to voter suppression ahead of the midterms,<\/strong> and said they will take legal action to stop the president, including California.
Trump continued to fume over today\u2019s ruling from a US judge that halted the construction of his $400m White House ballroom<\/strong>, and sharply criticized the decision during a press briefing and on social media.
Pete Hegseth lifted the suspension of the crew of the military helicopters that hovered near the home of singer Kid Rock<\/strong>, and said there would be no investigation.<\/p>\n

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