The top court has will hear a landmark case that questions a historic guarantee: guaranteed citizenship for people born within US borders.
On his first day in office this winter, President Donald Trump issued an executive order aiming to terminate birthright citizenship, but the order was halted by the judiciary after constitutional questions were filed.
The Supreme Court's eventual decision will ultimately support citizenship rights for the children of foreign nationals who are in the US illegally or on non-immigrant visas, or it will nullify them entirely.
Next, the judges will schedule a date to hear oral arguments between the administration and the suing parties, which comprise foreign-born parents and their young children.
For more than 150 years, the Constitutional amendment has established the rule that all individuals born in the nation is a American citizen, with specific conditions for children born to foreign diplomats and members of occupying armies.
"Anyone born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States."
The disputed directive sought to deny citizenship to the offspring of people who are either in the US illegally or are in the country on short-term status.
The United States belongs to a group of about a minority of states – primarily in the Americas – that award instant citizenship to anyone born on their soil.
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