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Birthright Citizenship Under Attack: Who “Really” Counts as American
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Episode Summary:
On his first day back in office, Donald Trump signed an executive order instructing federal agencies to stop recognizing some U.S.-born babies as citizens. That fight is now at the Supreme Court — and it’s about far more than immigration law. We look at what birthright citizenship is and why it was written into the Constitution after the Civil War, exactly what Trump’s order does and who it targets, the legal battle from “blatantly unconstitutional” to the Supreme Court’s shadow-docket ruling, what statelessness means for children born in America, and how…
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