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Trump’s birthright order was part of a series that sought to bolster security along the southern border.The order aimed to end automatic citizenship for U.S.-born children if neither parent is a ...
Democratic state attorneys general, immigrant rights advocates and others have filed a series of lawsuits saying Trump's executive order violates the citizenship clause of the U.S. Constitution's ...
On February 5, US District Judge Deborah Boardman issued a nationwide preliminary injunction, saying the order "conflicts with the plain language of the 14th Amendment, contradicts 125-year old binding Supreme Court precedent and runs counter to our nation’s 250-year history of citizenship by birth" and was "likely to be found unconstitutional."
While the 14th Amendment has granted U.S. citizenship to anyone born in the country for more than 150 years, Trump’s Agenda 47 policy platform states the clause has been "misinterpreted" and ...
The Civil Rights Act of 1866 extends the rights of emancipated slaves by stating that any person born in the United States regardless of race is an American citizen. The Enforcement Acts of 1870-1871 allows the President to protect Black American men ’s right to vote, to hold office, to serve on juries, and for Black men and women to receive ...
The Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments.Usually considered one of the most consequential amendments, it addresses citizenship rights and equal protection under the law and was proposed in response to issues related to formerly enslaved Americans following the American Civil War.
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Lifelong New York civil rights advocate and NAACP leader Hazel Dukes dies at 92; Trump signs order designating English as the official language of the US; Grammy-nominated R&B singer Angie Stone dies in car crash; David Johansen, singer from the seminal punk band the New York Dolls, dies at 75