The U.S. Supreme Court announced Friday that it will hear a case regarding President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship.
14th The constitutional amendment has long been interpreted to grant citizenship to children born to immigrants in the United States, but the Trump administration is seeking to deny citizenship to children born to immigrants who are in the country illegally or temporarily.
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The Justice Department is appealing the decision in two lawsuits challenging the order. Reuters I will report it. One case was brought by the states of Washington, Arizona, Illinois, and Oregon, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled in their favor. The other case was filed as a class action by New Hampshire, where a judge granted class action status and allowed the order to be blocked nationwide. A previous Supreme Court order had ruled that nationwide injunctions could only be granted in certain circumstances, including class action lawsuits.
In the latter case, the plaintiffs are represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of New Hampshire, the ACLU of Maine, the ACLU of Massachusetts, the Legal Defense Fund, the Asian Legislative Caucus, and the Democracy Defense Fund. these groups issued a statement Regarding that matter.
“No president can change the fundamental promise of the 14th Amendment regarding civil rights,” said ACLU National Legal Director Cecilia Wang. “For more than 150 years, it has been the law and tradition of our nation that everyone born on U.S. soil is a citizen from birth. The federal courts have unanimously held that President Trump’s executive order violates the Constitution, the Supreme Court’s 1898 decision, and the laws enacted by Congress. We look forward to the Supreme Court deciding this issue once and for all this term.”
“It is deeply disturbing that we have to waste precious judicial resources relitigating something that has been constitutionally settled for over a century,” said Aarti Kohli, executive director of the Asian Legislative Caucus. “Every federal judge who has considered this executive order has found it unconstitutional. If implemented, this policy would force all parents, including U.S. citizens, to prove their immigration status just to obtain a birth certificate or Social Security number for their baby, which would inevitably lead to racial profiling based on name, appearance, and accent.”
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“It’s a big deal,” said Steve Vladeck, a CNN Supreme Court analyst and professor at Georgetown University Law Center. CNN coverage He said President Trump’s order was clearly wrong and he hoped the high court would invalidate it. “Perhaps no issue since the beginning of this administration has President Trump been more wrong than his attempt to narrow birthright citizenship by executive order.”
“Whether it is in violation of relevant statutes, the 14th Amendment itself, or the Supreme Court’s authoritative 1898 interpretation of constitutional provisions, the fundamentals are the same,” he added. “And while the court sided with President Trump earlier this summer when he asked him to narrow the scope of the injunction against the policy, there is every reason to believe that this court will rule against him now that the case is back on the merits. The real question will be on which of several possible grounds.”
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