President-elect Donald Trump's plan to end birthright citizenship is likely to face significant legal challenges due to its conflict with the Constitution.
President-elect Donald Trump says he wants to end birthright citizenship . But his stated policy goal is in tension with the Constitution , and an executive order from the Trump White House attempting to achieve that goal could lead to an early Supreme Court test in his second term. The 14th Amendment says: “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.
” Supreme Court precedent going back more than a century has said that a person is a U.S. citizen if they’re born in the U.S. to noncitizen parents. Given that constitutional grounding, the most straightforward way to amend that right is to amend the Constitution. Of course, that approach is straightforward only in a formal sense. Practically speaking, amending the Constitution is difficult by design. That’s likely why the president-elect has signaled executive action as the means by which he intends to accomplish his stated goal. Expect litigation if Trump makes such an attempt after taking office on Jan. 20. As it happens, a Trump-appointed federal appeals court judge recently staked out a position that could weaken birthright citizenship after he previously endorsed it. That judge, James Ho, sits on the Republican-friendly 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, and he could be a Supreme Court nominee in Trump’s second term if a vacancy arises. During litigation over Texas’ installation of a floating barrier in the Rio Grande, Ho wrote a solo opinion endorsing the theory that the U.S. is under an “invasion” from the “illegal immigration crisis,” the sort of argument that could bolster Trump’s quest to weaken birthright citizenship. To be sure, Ho is just one judge, and the Supreme Court has rejected the 5th Circuit when the appeals court has gone too far even for the high cour
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