The US Supreme Court will hear arguments April 1 in a case testing President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to redefine birthright citizenship under the US Constitution.
The court on Friday scheduled arguments in a long-running clash that stems from an order Trump signed on his first day back in the White House that would restrict automatic birthright citizenship to people with at least one parent who is a citizen or a green-card holder.
The order challenged a historical consensus that under the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause, citizenship is granted to virtually everyone born on US soil. It prompted immediate challenges from affected people and from some Democratic-led states. Multiple courts have also found the order likely violated the Constitution.
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