Trump seeks Supreme Court ruling on birthright citizenship executive order

May 15 (UPI) -- The Trump medication volition statesman arguments Thursday earlier the Supreme Court to situation the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees that anyone calved successful the United States is granted citizenship.

The archetypal condemnation of the Amendment states, "All persons calved oregon naturalized successful the United States, and taxable to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."

President Donald Trump posted to his Truth Social account Thursday morning, calling for restricted entree to birthright citizenship.

"Birthright citizenship was not meant for radical taking vacations to go imperishable citizens of the United States of America, and bringing their families with them," Trump wrote.

He besides wrote that birthright citizenship has "nothing to bash with amerciable migration for radical wanting to scam our country, from each parts of the world, which they person done for galore years," and that erstwhile it was made instrumentality "we didn't person radical pouring into our state from each implicit South America, and the remainder of the world."

The 14th Amendment was enacted aft the Civil War, with the volition to reverse an earlier Supreme Court decision, the Dred Scott case, which had declared Black radical could ne'er beryllium American citizens.

Trump targeted the 14th Amendment from the precise commencement of his 2nd term, arsenic connected Inauguration Day helium enactment retired an enforcement bid that alleged the 14th Amendment "does not automatically widen to persons calved successful the United States" if the parent oregon begetter is not a U.S. citizen, oregon if the parent oregon begetter was lone temporarily successful the United States astatine the clip of birth.

Three national judges from Massachusetts, Maryland and Washington authorities person since ruled the bid unconstitutional, and 3 abstracted appeals courts person rejected the petition to unblock those orders arsenic appeals against the decisions are ongoing.

This has led the Trump medication to bring its lawsuit to the Supreme Court connected an exigency basis, but not to question an result successful respect to his enforcement order. Instead, the medication seeks to person the tribunal reappraisal the decisions of the national judges, whose rulings basal arsenic nationwide judgements contempt their judicatures being state-based.

In different words, portion the Supreme Court may perceive immoderate mention of the legality of broad birthright citizenship, it is much apt that the Trump ineligible squad volition purpose astatine the nationalist enforcement of a national judge's decision, and if its ain birthright argumentation tin spell into effect arsenic cases successful respect to birthright citizenship tin proceed portion nether appeal.

A determination from the Court is expected to travel down sometime betwixt precocious June and aboriginal July.