High Court Blocks Trump Plan To Restrict Birthright Citizenship
By: Jacob Wheeler | The Daily Wire
"The Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment extended that promise to 'every free-born person in this land,'" Roberts wrote.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday permanently blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to restrict birthright citizenship, dealing a significant blow to his immigration agenda and preventing a sweeping overhaul of who qualifies for U.S. citizenship.
In a landmark ruling authored by Chief Justice John Roberts, the Supreme Court held that children born in the United States to parents unlawfully or temporarily present are “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States and are citizens at birth under the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause.
“Citizenship, then and now, was the right ...