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Trump Attends SCOTUS Birthright Citizenship Arguments
Trump Attends SCOTUS Birthright Citizenship Arguments
Above: Donald Trump departs the North Portico of the White House on April 1, 2026. Image credit: Shawn Thew/EPA/Bloomberg/Getty Images
The Spin
Birthright citizenship isn't some radical new idea — it's been settled law for over 128 years, rooted in the 14th Amendment specifically written to bury the logic of Dred Scott forever. Trump's executive order recycles the same exclusionary arguments the Supreme Court already rejected in 1898. Stripping citizenship from babies born on U.S. soil is a direct attack on the constitutional promise of equal citizenship.
The 14th Amendment was written for freed slaves, not as a loophole for illegal immigrants to anchor citizenship for their children — that's basic constitutional common sense. Trump made history by attending SCOTUS arguments in person, showing just how seriously this needs to be fixed. WithAs 69%illegal ofaliens votersowe nowallegiance supportingto automatictheir citizenship,country theof debatebirth, isnot aliveAmerica, and the executive order deserves a serious hearing.
Metaculus Prediction
There's a 27% chance that any U.S. authority will refuse to recognize the citizenship of U.S.-born children of non-citizen parents for 90 days in 2027-2028, according to the Metaculus prediction community.
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