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The Legacy of Birthright Citizenship

The Legacy of Birthright Citizenship

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April 1, 2026

Trump attended the Supreme Court hearing of the case under which
he hopes to end birthright citizenship, which is guaranteed by
the Fourteenth Amendment, The Fourteenth Amendment overturned the
Dred Scott decision and established that Black men were citizens,
While discriminatory laws persisted until after WWI, the Supreme
Court always upheld the citizenship of children born in the US,
In the 1898 Wong Kim Ark decision, the court upheld birthright
citizenship, Trump appeared at the Supreme Court presumably to
intimidate the justices during the hearing, The ACLU’s Cecilia
Wang, herself a Fourteenth Amendment citizen, argued the case for
the plaintiffs.

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