Birthright Citizenship Under Attack: Who “Really” Counts as American

About this episode

The episode discusses Donald Trump's executive order on birthright citizenship and its implications as it reaches the Supreme Court.

Send us Fan Mail Episode Summary: On his first day back in office, Donald Trump signed an executive order instructing federal agencies to stop recognizing some U.S.-born babies as citizens. That fight is now at the Supreme Court — and it’s about far more than immigration law. We look at what birthright citizenship is and why it was written into the Constitution after the Civil War, exactly what Trump’s order does and who it targets, the legal battle from “blatantly unconstitutional” ...

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Host: Bella Goode

Topics covered

• birthright citizenship
• executive order
• Supreme Court
• immigration law
• constitutional law

Keywords

• birthright citizenship
• Donald Trump
• executive order
• Supreme Court
• immigration

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Organizations: Supreme Court

Books & works: Constitution

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