2026-04-02
14 分钟you The Supreme Court hears arguments on birthright citizenship.
The outcome could redetermine who gets to be an American.
You have people who have been relying on this automatic birthright citizenship for over a century.
And so I think that there's always concern about how whatever they decide will play out in the real world.
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I'm Alex Osula for The Wall Street Journal.
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The Supreme Court heard arguments today on possible limits to birthright citizenship in the U.S.
As expected, President Trump sat in on part of the hearing,
the first known example of a sitting president to attend arguments before the Supreme Court.
On the first day of his second term, Trump signed an executive order that would end automatic birthright citizenship for babies
born to unauthorized immigrants or people living here temporarily.
At least six courts have already said the order violates the 14th Amendment.
WSJ legal affairs reporter Lydia Wheeler joins me now from Washington.
Lydia, what was the Trump administration's argument here?
So the Trump administration is arguing that the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment was adopted to confer citizenship
on newly freed slaves and their children, not on the children of immigrants in the country temporarily or illegally.
And so what they 're really focused on is that the Citizenship Clause says all persons born are naturalized