SCOTUS hears birthright citizenship arguments

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  And today on the show, a major court case over the future of citizenship in this country.

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  For more than two hours, the Supreme Court discussed if all babies born in the United States,

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  regardless of their parents' status, are automatically granted citizenship.

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  U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer began by laying out the thrust of his argument.

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  Mr. Chief Justice, and may it please the court,

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  the Citizenship Clause was adopted just after the Civil War to grant citizenship to the newly freed slaves

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  and their children, whose allegiance to the United States had been established by generations of domicile here.

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  It did not grant citizenship to the children of temporary visitors or illegal aliens who have no such allegiance.

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  Throughout the arguments, though, justices returned to that concept again and again with skepticism.

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