Citizen Birthright: Trump has a plan for the far-right SCOTUS [View all]

Politico reported Saturday that Trump's planned executive order would be aimed at preventing children of undocumented immigrants born in the United States from having birthright citizenship. Because presidents can't undo constitutional provisions on their own, it's likely that litigation over the order will eventually make its way to the High Court, which has a six-member conservative majority (including three judges Trump himself appointed).

“What will happen is, the government will get sued, and it’ll go up to the Supreme Court, and we’ll finally get a final decision on this issue,” Hans von Spakovsky, who is senior legal and judicial studies fellow at the far-right Heritage Foundation, told Politico. “The last case on this was 1898, so it’s a very long time ago. And I actually think when the Supreme Court looks at this, they will realize and uphold what Trump does.”

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