Supreme Court Hears Birthright Citizenship Case That Could Also Sharply Reduce Judicial Power

The Supreme Court has heard oral arguments in a case challenging Trump’s now-halted order to end birthright citizenship. Multiple lower courts have already ruled that the order is unconstitutional. Trump’s lawyers are seeking to reinterpret the 14th Amendment, which has guaranteed citizenship to any child born in the United States for over a century. Legal expert Andrea Flores, an immigration lawyer at FWD.us, says the government’s weak arguments about implementing the unprecedented anti-immigrant order indicate that “The administration is not prepared to do this. They just want the authority to reinterpret amendments.”