President Donald Trump made history Wednesday by being the first sitting president to attend oral arguments at the Supreme Court.
The case in question centered on Trump’s executive order effectively banning birthright citizenship, which automatically grants the children of temporary visitors and illegal aliens U.S. citizenship.
The policy has gained renewed scrutiny in recent years amid the open border policies of the Biden administration and the rising birth tourism industry. The Trump administration argues that the 14th Amendment’s Citizenship Clause — which states, “all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside” — was meant to more narrowly apply to the children of slaves.
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