President Donald Trump is seeking to end birthright citizenship, a constitutional right enshrined in the 14th Amendment. We asked two experts in constitutional and immigration law to walk us through what the amendment says,
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Last Friday, former President Biden declared the Equal Rights Amendment "the law of the land" - so why has it failed to become the nation's 28th constitutional amendment.
Trump wants a Constitution that, among other things, allows him to refuse to spend congressional appropriations and as we’ve discussed, unilaterally deny citizenship to certain people born in the United States, against the clear direction of the Constitution.
One of the biggest issues of the new Trump term is birthright citizenship. The president is pushing back against it with an executive order. He has a valid, constitutional argument.
In the few days since he returned to the White House, President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive orders and mass pardons have shattered political and legal norms. But one order is in a category of its own.
Trump issued an executive order that would erase part of the 14th Amendment, which guarantees citizenship to all children born on US soil. Birthright citizenship has been American doctrine since it was ratified in 1868 and affirmed multiple times by the Supreme Court – notably in the late 19th century during an era of anti-immigrant sentiment.
President Biden says he believes the amendment has met the requirements to be enshrined in the Constitution. Its history has been long and complex.
Donald Trump yesterday took an oath to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States” and then promptly broke that oath by seeking to revoke the first sentence of
President Joe Biden announced on Friday that he considers the Equal Rights Amendment to have been ratified. His statement “affirm[ed] what I believe and what three-fourths of the states have ratified: the 28th Amendment is the law of the land,
Donald Trump will be only the second U.S. president after Grover Cleveland to serve two nonconsecutive terms after he takes the oath of office Monday.
Hypocrites in the media and Democrats denounce Trump's "dictatorial" interpretation of 14th Amendment on birthright citizenship, but cheered Biden's blatantly illegal and unilateral measures to protect illegal immigrants from deportation, to grant student debt relief and to inject race into virtually every aspect of the federal government.