Takeaways from the Supreme Court arguments on Trumpâs effort to end automatic birthright citizenship | CNN Politics
President Donald Trumpâs push to end automatic birthright citizenship was met by a suspicious Supreme Court on Wednesday, with liberal and conservative justices raising tough questions about reimagining the way citizenship has been understood in the United States for more than a century. Over the course of more than two hours, with Trump himself in attendance for roughly 75 minutes, the justices picked away at the arguments raised by the administrationâs attorney â Solicitor General D. John Sauer â about whether the framers of the 14th Amendment intended to exclude children born to a wide swath of illegal and legal immigrants from the promise of citizenship by virtue of being born on US soil. If Trump hoped his presence might influence the justices, it didnât seem to work. Supreme Court skeptical of Trumpâs birthright citizenship order Should the decision reflect the arguments, it will mark the second major Trump administration policy to fall at the hands of a conservative Supreme Court on which three of nine justices were appointed by the president himself. The court also struck down Trumpâs sweeping emergency global tariffs this year. Here are takeaways from the cou
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