Trump's lawyer faces pushback early on in Supreme Court hearing on birthright citizenship [View all]
Source: Associated Press
The Supreme Court is taking up one of the term’s most consequential cases: President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship, declaring that children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens.
An hour into the hearing, the lawyer for the Trump administration, Solicitor General D. John Sauer, is fielding skepticism from conservative and liberal justices alike.
Trump is in attendance, making him the first sitting president to attend oral arguments at the nation’s highest court.
The birthright citizenship order, which Trump signed on Jan. 20, 2025, the first day of his second term, is part of his Republican administration’s broad immigration crackdown.
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Birthright citizenship has been "settled law" for 114 years and now he wants to change it to suit himself? What about all those Russian mommies he brought over and put up in fancy hotels in Florida so they could have their babies under the US flaq and then go back to Russia? I bet nobody asks him about THEM...but I would.
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