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The bad news buried in the Supreme Court's birthright citizenship ruling
The Court Said No. The Damage Was the Point.Power, Not ConfusionThe immediate fact is simple: the Supreme Court blocked Trump’s attempt to erase birthright citizenship with a Day One executive order. The order would have stripped citizenship from children born in the United States if their parents were undocumented or on temporary visas. Lower courts had already stopped it because it plainly collided with the 14th Amendment.That is the legal record. The political record is harsher: Trump used the presidency to test how far he could push a direct attack on a constitutional guarantee, then…
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