Supreme Court Appears Skeptical of Limiting Birthright Citizenship

Supreme Court justices sharply questioned arguments to limit 14th Amendment birthright citizenship during Wednesday's oral argument. The justices pressed government lawyers on statutory text, historical practice, and the 1898 Wong Kim Ark precedent. President Donald Trump attended the hearing, the first modern president to observe an oral argument, as the court cast doubt on his executive order to strip citizenship from roughly 200,000 U.S.-born infants each year. A rejection of the administration's case would preserve the 14th Amendment guarantee of birthright citizenship nationwide.