Trump Aims to Upend Long-Held Citizenship Rules at Supreme Court.

The article focuses on the legal and constitutional debate surrounding President Donald Trump's 2018 executive order aiming to end automatic birthright citizenship in the United States, which is guaranteed by the 14th Amendment. The Supreme Court is hearing arguments on whether the amendment’s citizenship clause, historically understood to grant citizenship to nearly all born on U.S. soil, was originally intended only for children of freed slaves, as Trump and some conservative scholars now argue. Opponents, including Democrats and civil rights groups like the American Civil Liberties Union, maintain that the clause’s broad language and precedent, such as the 1898 US v. Wong Kim Ark decision, support universal birthright citizenship. The case tests the conservative Supreme Court’s originalist approach, which interprets the Constitution based on its historical meaning, with potential implications for millions of current and future U.S. citizens. [Extracted from the article]