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new video loaded: Key Justices Appear Skeptical of Limiting Birthright Citizenship<\/p>\n
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Back<\/span><\/p>\n transcript<\/p>\n \u201cYou obviously put a lot of weight on, subject to the jurisdiction thereof, but the examples you give to support that strike me as very quirky.\u201d \u201cAnd if they were going to invent an entirely new kind of citizenship, like an American brand, why wouldn\u2019t we have seen more discussion of that?\u201d \u201cWe\u2019ll have it for you back at the Oval. The first is the rescissions of 78.\u201d \u201cChildren of temporary visitors are not citizens. And illegal aliens lack the legal capacity to establish domicile here.\u201d \u201cThe thing about this is, then you have to adjudicate. If you\u2019re looking at parents, and if you\u2019re looking at parents domicile, then you have to adjudicate both residents and intent to stay.\u201d \u201cWe say no.\u201d \u201cThe Citizenship Clause was adopted just after the Civil War to grant citizenship to the newly freed slaves and their children, whose allegiance to the United States had been established by generations of domicile here. It did not grant citizenship to the children of temporary visitors or illegal aliens who have no such allegiance.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s crystal clear from Wong Kim Ark and from the debates that the framers of the 14th Amendment meant to have a universal common law rule of citizenship subject to a closed set of exceptions. And we can\u2019t take the current administration\u2019s policy considerations into account to try to re-engineer and radically reinterpret the original meaning of the 14th Amendment.\u201d \u201dAnd that\u2019s why we keep on making our voices.\u201c \u201dImmigrants don\u2019t speak for me.\u201c \u201dTrump must go now.\u201c<\/p>\n During a Supreme Court hearing on Wednesday, several justices expressed skepticism about the Trump administration\u2019s efforts to bar children of undocumented immigrants born in the United States from automatically becoming Americans.<\/span><\/p>\n By McKinnon de Kuyper and Jamie Leventhal<\/p>\n April 1, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" new video loaded: Key Justices Appear Skeptical of Limiting Birthright Citizenship transcript Back transcript Key Justices Appear Skeptical of Limiting Birthright Citizenship During a Supreme Court hearing on Wednesday, several justices expressed skepticism about the Trump administration\u2019s efforts to bar children of undocumented immigrants born in the United States from automatically becoming Americans. \u201cYou obviously<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[2435,2436,24076,788,3340,9391],"class_list":{"0":"post-47771","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-crime-justice","8":"tag-birthright","9":"tag-citizenship","10":"tag-justices","11":"tag-key","12":"tag-limiting","13":"tag-skeptical"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Key Justices Appear Skeptical of Limiting Birthright Citizenship<\/h2>\n
During a Supreme Court hearing on Wednesday, several justices expressed skepticism about the Trump administration\u2019s efforts to bar children of undocumented immigrants born in the United States from automatically becoming Americans.<\/h4>\n