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Supreme Court Upholds Birthright Citizenship | Austin News
The Supreme Court just delivered a landmark ruling, striking down President Trump’s executive order that sought to end birthright citizenship — a move that would have denied citizenship to children born in the U.S. to undocumented parents. In a 6-3 decision, the Court reaffirmed the Constitution’s bedrock principle: anyone born on American soil is automatically a citizen, as guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment since 1868. The administration’s argument that these children weren’t “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” was soundly rejected. This decision, coming alongside rulings that…
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