Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard early arguments challenging rulings issued by three lower courts that blocked President Trump’s unlawful efforts to overturn the Constitution’s guarantee of birthright citizenship.
If you are born in the United States, the Constitution clearly guarantees that you are a citizen with all the freedoms that entails. But, on his first day in office, President Trump issued an executive order attempting to illegally end birthright citizenship.
For the president to say he will unilaterally deny citizenship to certain people born in the country is incredibly troubling, both as a matter of law and because of what it means for democratic participation. If the president has the right to determine who is and who is not a citizen, then the president also can decide who can and who cannot vote — and that is a very dangerous precedent.
Campaign Legal Center is urging the Supreme Court to affirm our Constitution and more than 100 years of legal precedent by upholding birthright citizenship.
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