🔗 Share this article The nation's highest court agrees to review lawsuit challenging citizenship by birth. The nation's highest court has decided to review a significant case that challenges a century-old guarantee: automatic citizenship for people born in the United States. On his first day in office this January, President Donald Trump signed an order aiming to end the policy, but the order was halted by the judiciary after constitutional questions were initiated. The Supreme Court's eventual judgment will either uphold citizenship rights for the children of foreign nationals who are in the US undocumented or on non-immigrant visas, or it will nullify those rights entirely. Next, the court will schedule a date to hear oral arguments between the government and plaintiffs, which include immigrant parents and their infants. The Legal Foundation For more than 150 years, the Fourteenth Amendment has established the rule that anyone born in the country is a American citizen, with certain exclusions for children born to diplomats and members of invading forces. "Every individual born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States." The challenged executive order sought to deny citizenship to the children of people who are whether in the US illegally or are in the country on short-term status. The United States belongs to a group of about 30 countries – mostly in the North and South America – that award immediate citizenship to anyone born in their territory.
The nation's highest court has decided to review a significant case that challenges a century-old guarantee: automatic citizenship for people born in the United States. On his first day in office this January, President Donald Trump signed an order aiming to end the policy, but the order was halted by the judiciary after constitutional questions were initiated. The Supreme Court's eventual judgment will either uphold citizenship rights for the children of foreign nationals who are in the US undocumented or on non-immigrant visas, or it will nullify those rights entirely. Next, the court will schedule a date to hear oral arguments between the government and plaintiffs, which include immigrant parents and their infants. The Legal Foundation For more than 150 years, the Fourteenth Amendment has established the rule that anyone born in the country is a American citizen, with certain exclusions for children born to diplomats and members of invading forces. "Every individual born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States." The challenged executive order sought to deny citizenship to the children of people who are whether in the US illegally or are in the country on short-term status. The United States belongs to a group of about 30 countries – mostly in the North and South America – that award immediate citizenship to anyone born in their territory.