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Hell and fury narrowly avoided as Supreme Court says no to Trump
Birthright Citizenship Survived Trump’s Test. The System Still Failed the Test.The Decision Was the MinimumA federal court blocked Donald Trump’s executive order trying to strip birthright citizenship from children born in the United States to undocumented or non-permanent-resident parents. That is the immediate fact pattern. The larger fact is uglier: a president tried to unmake a constitutional guarantee by fiat, and the country had to rely on judges to stop him.This was not a legal debate in the abstract. It was an attempted downgrade of citizenship into a privilege the executive could…
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