The Supreme Court has upheld a broad conception of birthright citizenship, rejecting President Donald Trump’s executive order declaring that children born to people in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens. TAG: That’s correspondent Bernie Bennett. VERBATIM: The justices in their decision in a New Hampshire case Tuesday relied on a long-settled […]
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Supreme Court Rules on Birthright Citizenship
The Supreme Court has upheld a broad conception of birthright citizenship, rejecting President Donald Trump’s executive order declaring that children born to people in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens.
TAG: That’s correspondent Bernie Bennett.
VERBATIM: The justices in their decision in a New Hampshire case Tuesday relied on a long-settled understanding of the 14th Amendment, adopted after the Civil War, and more recent federal laws in ruling anyone born in the country is a citizen, with limited exceptions.
The Republican president’s restrictions had been blocked by several lower courts and had not taken effect.
Three conservative justices would have allowed the restrictions to take effect.