This week, the Supreme Court began hearing arguments in the case that could restrict birthright citizenship from children born to parents who are in America illegally or temporarily. Trump's lawyers have hitched their argument to the technical meaning of four words in the very first line of the 14th Amendment, which is known as the Citizenship Clause. But this is really a fight over something much bigger. It's a fight over what kind of America we want to live in. Because to understand why the 14th Amendment ...

Today, the Supreme Court hear challenge to President Trump's executive order ending birthright citizenship, a right that has been fundamental to this country for more than 150 years. The Trump administration is trying to revisit the meaning of the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment, which states, quote, all persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. Some of the justices seemed a little ...

today you were in the courtroom what did you think you know it felt like a historic moment to be in the courtroom um before the oral argument even began there's a often sort of uh paperwork process where people can be sworn in to be members of the supreme court bar and a lot of people were sworn in this morning and it was people of different races different ethnicities different religions um you could tell you know families from all over the world and it just struck me as such a powerful example of what the ...

President Trump appearing at the US Supreme Court this morning to hear oral arguments on one of the most controversial moves of his immigration crackdown. His attendance for arguments a first for a sitting president. Mr.. Trump seated in the front row as the justices, including conservatives he appointed, peppered the government's top lawyer with questions about the president's plan to end birthright citizenship guaranteed under the Constitution to almost anyone born on US soil. How would it work. You're no ...

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former White Hse Deputy Chief of Staff for operations under President Obama, campaign manager for Obama's 2012 re-election and CEO of the Messina Group. Kimberly Atkins stories, columnist for the Boston Globe, writer of the Supreme Court newsletter, The Gavel, and an MSNOW political analyst. It's so good to have both of you here.Kimberly, let's just do the bottom line. What would it mean if Trump's executive order is upheld. It would mean changing what it means to be an American and putting that decision in ...

Oral arguments just wrapped up at the Supreme Court in the landmark birthright citizenship case. The justices are now weighing whether President Trump is in fact allowed to limit the constitutional right as he tried to do on day one of his second term. Trump issued an executive order upending the traditional understanding of a provision of the 14th amendment that provides citizenship to all people born in the US.The order was immediately blocked by courts around the country and has never been in effect. But ...

understood to be narrower than its text would read. Yes. But that's not the text, so I guess we don't need to deal with that.Sure. And that brings me back to my third point, which is you can't read not subject to any foreign power the way the government urges you to without making the children of all foreign nationals noncitizens. And that's clearly not what the framers were doing.Justice Alito and Justice Kagan raised an interpretive question that I think is important, which is are the exceptions, you've u ...

My wife and I are at home and uh the doorbell rings and I go to the door and there's I think five uh sheriff's deputies there with long rifles >> and they show up with guns drawn. >> Oh yeah. Yes. Yes.Long guns, very intimidating guns. And they said to me, "Sir, could we see your wife?" And I said, "Whatever for." and they said, "Well, sir, we've had a report that you've murdered your wife." >> It was a cruel hoax. The next day, a bomb threat for John Kunau, a federal district court judge in Washington Stat ...

RT Wesley Yang (@wesyang)Insane Chinese couple uses surrogates to manufacture at least 26 children.You can't allow people to abuse birthright citizenship in this way.You can't allow people to abuse surrogacy in this way.There must be expeditious action to prohibit this kind of activity. https://t.co/w2ndu1bvG3 ...