Birthright Citizenship

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June 30, 2026

Trump signed an executive order, on his first day in office,
declaring that there was no birthright citizenship, The ACLU and
others sued the administration, The Fourteenth Amendment
established birthright citizenship, After the Civil War former
Confederates denied Black Southerners basic rights, The
Republican Congress passed a civil rights bill in 1866 but
President Andrew Johnson vetoed it, When Congress wrote the 14th
Amendment, it acknowledged that the Constitution had already
established citizenship for all persons born or naturalized in
the US, The 14th Amendment was challenged in the late 19th
century, but the Supreme Court upheld it in 1898, After that, It
seemed the law was settled, After Trump issued his executive
order, judges all sided against him, and today the current court
upheld birthright citizenship, But many have said that the
Supreme Court should never have even taken the case, And four of
the nine current Supreme Court justices appear to be willing to
rewrite the Constitution, MAGA is pressing the administration to
step up immigration enforcement in response.

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