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Trump expected to participate in Supreme Court arguments on birthright citizenship
President Donald Trump is expected to hear a landmark case at the US supreme court today weighing the constitutionality of his contentious proposal to end birthright citizenship; This is an extraordinary and possibly unprecedented move for the nation’s highest office.
On his return to the White House, Trump signed an executive order decreeing that children born to parents in the United States illegally or on temporary visas will not automatically become U.S. citizens.
Lower courts blocked the move as unconstitutional and ruled that under the Naturalization Clause of the 14th Amendment, almost everyone born on US soil is an American citizen, AFP reported.
“Everyone born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction of the United States is a citizen of the United States,” the amendment states. This does not apply to persons not subject to U.S. jurisdiction (e.g., foreign diplomats and sovereign Native American tribes).
“I’m leaving,” Trump told reporters Tuesday when asked about the Supreme Court hearing. He attended the inauguration of the first Supreme Court justice nominee, Neil Gorsuch, in 2017, months into Trump’s first term.
But it would be an extraordinary milestone for a sitting president to appear for oral arguments in a case their administration is actively discussing.
The Trump administration argues that the 14th amendment, passed in the wake of the 1861-1865 Civil War, addresses civil rights for former slaves, not the children of undocumented immigrants or temporary visitors.
Trump’s executive order is based on the idea that anyone who enters the United States illegally or with a visa is not “subject to the jurisdiction” of the country and is therefore excluded from automatic citizenship.
Trump will attend the Supreme Court hearing, which will include oral arguments, starting at 10:00 today. He will then address the nation at 9pm ET, providing an update on the Iran war.
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Josh Owens made these revealing remarks in an NPR interview report He released his new memoir Tuesday about once being an employee of Jones and Infowars; The speech also detailed the hand he used to fabricate a video showing an operative of the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group sneaking into the United States from Mexico immediately after the beheading.
“In Jones’ world, it was all about looking cinematic,” Owens, who left Infowars in 2017, told NPR. He continued, likening the aesthetic to what Vice News saw in bits and pieces: “We would go out there, shoot videos… It was like we were in the grass, showing what was really going on.
“But that was bullshit. It was a lie.”
To illustrate this point, Owens described how Infowars deployed him to El Paso, Texas, after a conservative website claimed that ISIS had established a training base on the other side of the U.S.-Mexico border, specifically in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua.
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President Trump cannot unilaterally overturn a constitutional amendment; This requires congressional action.
However, the administration claims that they did not reject the change, but interpreted it according to its intended meaning.
The Trump administration is asking the high court to reinterpret the amendment and allow the decision to be enforced, overriding more than 125 years of legal precedent.
The groundbreaking decision on birthright citizenship, United States v. Wong Kim Ark, made clear that a child born to parents of Chinese descent with permanent “domicile” in the United States would become a U.S. citizen at birth under the 14th amendment.
The Trump administration argues that the word “domicile,” meaning permanent residence, is a critical part of the interpretation, although the amendment does not include that word.
“Birthright Citizenship was not intended for people who went on vacation to become permanent Citizens of the United States and brought their families with them and always laughed at us being ‘SAMIC’!” the president wrote in Truth Social last year.
The Supreme Court is expected to rule by the end of June.
Last year, the court gave Trump his first victory in the birthright context with a decision that restricted federal judges’ power to restrict presidential policies across the country.
Although it stemmed from early judicial decisions declaring Trump’s directive unconstitutional, the court’s decision did not resolve its legality.
The court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, has supported Trump on other major immigration-related policies since his return to the presidency.
It allowed Trump to temporarily expand mass deportation measures while legal challenges arose, such as ending humanitarian protections for immigrants or allowing them to be deported to countries with which they have no ties.
The administration has said that granting citizenship to almost anyone born on U.S. soil encourages illegal immigration and leads to “birth tourism,” in which foreigners travel to the U.S. to give birth and provide citizenship to their children.
The Supreme Court’s final decision upholding the administration’s view could affect the legal status of as many as 250,000 babies born each year, by some estimates, and require millions more families to prove their newborns’ citizenship status, Reuters reported.
The 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868, following the 1861-1865 Civil War that ended slavery in the United States and overturned the infamous 1857 Supreme Court decision declaring that people of African descent could never become U.S. citizens. U.S. District Judge Joseph Laplante, based in Concord, New Hampshire, last July allowed these plaintiffs’ challenge of Trump’s order to proceed as a class, allowing the policy to be blocked nationwide.
Opponents said the Supreme Court settled the birthright citizenship issue in 1898 in United States v. Wong Kim Ark, holding that the 14th Amendment grants citizenship by birth on U.S. soil, including to children of foreign nationals.
The administration argues that 1898 precedent supports Trump’s decision because at the time of Wong Kim Ark’s birth, his parents had permanent residence and domicile in the United States, according to the court’s ruling in that case.
Trump expected to participate in Supreme Court arguments on birthright citizenship
President Donald Trump is expected to hear a landmark case at the US supreme court today weighing the constitutionality of his contentious proposal to end birthright citizenship; This is an extraordinary and possibly unprecedented move for the nation’s highest office.
On his return to the White House, Trump signed an executive order decreeing that children born to parents in the United States illegally or on temporary visas will not automatically become U.S. citizens.
Lower courts blocked the move as unconstitutional and ruled that under the Naturalization Clause of the 14th Amendment, almost everyone born on US soil is an American citizen, AFP reported.
“Everyone born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction of the United States is a citizen of the United States,” the amendment states. This does not apply to persons not subject to U.S. jurisdiction (e.g., foreign diplomats and sovereign Native American tribes).
“I’m leaving,” Trump told reporters Tuesday when asked about the Supreme Court hearing. He attended the inauguration of the first Supreme Court justice nominee, Neil Gorsuch, in 2017, months into Trump’s first term.
But it would be an extraordinary milestone for a sitting president to appear for oral arguments in a case their administration is actively discussing.
The Trump administration argues that the 14th amendment, passed in the wake of the 1861-1865 Civil War, addresses civil rights for former slaves, not the children of undocumented immigrants or temporary visitors.
Trump’s executive order is based on the idea that anyone who enters the United States illegally or with a visa is not “subject to the jurisdiction” of the country and is therefore excluded from automatic citizenship.
Trump will attend the Supreme Court hearing, which will include oral arguments, starting at 10:00 today. He will then address the nation at 9pm ET, providing an update on the Iran war.
In other developments:
-
Trump signs executive order aimed at restricting mail-in voting across the US with a series of new requirementsIncluding the creation of a national voter list.
-
According to experts, the move was unprecedented and possibly unconstitutional. The Brennan Center said in response: “He has no legal authority to write the rules that govern our elections. He tried a year ago; we sued him; we won. He tried again a year later. He can expect the same result.”
-
Many state and Democratic officials criticized the decision, calling it an illegal attack that amounted to voter suppression ahead of the midterm elections. and said they would take legal action, including in California, to stop the president.
-
Trump remained angered by a US judge’s decision today halting construction of the $400 million White House ballroomHe harshly criticized the decision at the press conference and on social media.
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Pete Hegseth lifts suspension of military helicopter crew circling near singer Kid Rock’s homeHe said there would be no investigation.
