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Supreme Court to hear arguments on birthright citizenship
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Apr 18, 2025
The Supreme Court has announced it will hear oral arguments on birthright citizenship next month. FOX 5 NY's Robert Moses has the story.
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The Supreme Court has announced that it will hear oral arguments on birthright citizenship
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on May 15th. On President Donald Trump's first day in office, he signed an executive order
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ending birthright citizenship, which is the right enshrined in the 14th Amendment ratified after
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the Civil War, granting citizenship to anyone born in the U.S. The executive order is now paused
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while the High Court is in the process of deciding this case. The order the president signed on
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January 20th, directed federal agencies to not recognize the citizenship of any children born
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here who don't have at least one parent who's a citizen or legal permanent resident. The order
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drew immediate challenges from all across the country. New Jersey's Democratic Attorney General
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Matt Platkin is leading a multi-state lawsuit. He calls the administration's action blatantly
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unconstitutional and says it would strip citizenship from hundreds of thousands of
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people born in this country. Birthright citizenship was enshrined in the Constitution in the wake of
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the Civil War, is backed by a long line of Supreme Court precedent, and ensures that something as
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fundamental as American citizenship cannot be turned on or off at the whims of a single man
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The Attorney General said, we look forward to presenting our arguments to the Supreme Court
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in May. Here's what the President said about the court hearing the case
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I am so happy. I think the case has been so misunderstood. That case, birthright citizenship
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is about slavery. It was right at that era, during, right after the Civil War
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And if you look at it that way, the case is an easy case to win
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You heard the president say that he feels birthright citizenship is about slavery
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with the abolition of slavery, millions of freed slaves were made citizens
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The president appears to be arguing here that the 14th Amendment should only apply to that specific case
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and it shouldn't apply more broadly
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