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Supreme Court Upholds Birthright Citizenship | Oakland News
The Supreme Court just delivered a major blow to President Trump’s controversial executive order on birthright citizenship, upholding the long-standing rule that anyone born in the U.S. is automatically a citizen — regardless of their parents’ immigration status. Rejecting Trump’s attempt to redefine “subject to the jurisdiction” of the U.S., the court relied on the Fourteenth Amendment and precedent dating back to 1898, reaffirming that over 250,000 babies born annually in the U.S. would remain citizens. Trump himself appeared in court, but the conservative-majority court sided with legal…
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