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Supreme Court Upholds Birthright Citizenship
The justices blocked President Trump’s executive order that banned birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants and some temporary foreign visitors.
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SCOTUS Rules Trump Can’t Change Birthright Citizenship Through Executive Order
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The 6-3 ruling means that the 14th Amendment protection of citizenship rights for children born in the U.S. remains.
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Five sharpest barbs in new Supreme Court ruling as the justices turn on each other
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on Tuesday that states can bar transgender girls from female school sports, upholding laws in West Virginia and Idaho — and the justices spent much of the opinion going at one another.Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote the majority opinion, holding that neither Title IX nor the Constitution's Equal Protection Clause stops states from limiting girls' teams to students who are female at birth. The decision reversed lower-court wins for Becky Pepper-Jackson, the 15-year-old West Virginia student at the center of the case, and Boise State athlete Lindsay Hecox, whose cases the justices heard in January. Justice Sonia Sotomayor agreed the Title IX claim failed but dissented on the rest, joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson.Here are the five sharpest lines the justices aimed at each other.Sotomayor opened fire on the majority's reasoning, writing that it ruled "in an opinion unencumbered by fact or law." She also accused the majority of "moving the goalposts set by precedent," and said its equal protection analysis rested on "contorted logic."Justice Clarence Thomas answered the dissent's premise head-on in a concurrence, writing: "A man does not have a legal right to compete against women just because he believes that he is a woman."Kavanaugh used a section of his opinion answering the dissent of his opinion to fire back at Sotomayor, writing that the court does "not accept the dissent's assumed monopoly on understanding the effects on individuals involved in disputes over transgender athletes." Of her word choices, he added flatly: "that rhetoric is misdirected."Justice Neil Gorsuch, meanwhile, took his own shot in a footnote that opened "Contra JUSTICE JACKSON," rejecting her reading of the court's sex-stereotyping cases.The clash lands a year after the same conservative majority used similar reasoning to let Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for minors stand, a decision Sotomayor leans on throughout her dissent to argue the court applied the wrong test. It also caps a term of sharply divided decisions, including another 6-3 ruling a day earlier that drew its own Sotomayor dissent.
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Supreme Court rules Trump’s birthright citizenship restrictions are unconstitutional
The Supreme Court shut the door on President Trump’s birthright citizenship restrictions on Tuesday, ruling that his banner immigration policy is unconstitutional. Chief Justice John Roberts, joined by all three liberal justices and Justice Amy Coney Barrett, wrote that the 14th Amendment guarantees automatic citizenship for nearly all children born on U.S. soil, even those born…
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Understanding the Long Fight Over Birthright Citizenship
In rejecting President Donald Trump’s attempt to end automatic US citizenship for children born to parents who are in the country unlawfully or on temporary visas, the Supreme Court on June 30 upheld more than a century of legal precedent. There have been previous efforts to put restrictions on birthright citizenship dating back to decades after the concept was enshrined in the US Constitution. The Supreme Court has asserted, again, that such attempts can’t be squared with the document’s 14th Am
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Crowds outside Supreme Court cheer at birthright citizenship decision
NBC News’ Julia Ainsley reports from outside the Supreme Court where crowds cheered and celebrated after the court rejected President Donald Trump’s attempt to limit birthright citizenship.
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US supreme court rules states can exclude trans athletes from female sports
Justices voted to overturn judgments issued by lower courts in favor of trans students who sued after being barred from competing in West Virginia and IdahoSupreme court decisions – live updatesSign up for the Breaking News US emailThe US supreme court has upheld laws in two conservative states excluding transgender girls and women from competing in female sports in a far-reaching ruling likely to pave the way for similar bans throughout the US and handing Donald Trump a key “culture war” victory.The court voted to overturn previous judgements issued by lower courts in favor of two trans students who had sued after being barred from competing in West Virginia and Idaho respectively. Continue reading...
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What the birthright citizenship decision means for kids of immigrants
The ruling strikes down Trump's efforts to limit the 14th Amendment rights of some U.S.-born children.
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