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Supreme Court Upholds Birthright Citizenship, Rejecting Trump Order
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Summary
- In a 6-3 opinion by Chief Justice Roberts, the Supreme Court ruled the Constitution guarantees automatic birthright citizenship to virtually all children born in the US.
- The decision struck down Trump's first-day executive order seeking to deny citizenship to US-born children of undocumented or temporary-visa parents.
- It resolves one of the most closely watched cases of the term over the 14th Amendment's citizenship clause.
The question
The Constitution guarantees birthright citizenship regardless of parents' immigration status.
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