U.S. Supreme Court to examine birthright citizenship Wednesday

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Wednesday in a case to determine to whom the United States can extend birthright citizenship.

The case, Trump v. Barbara, centers around President Donald Trump’s Jan. 20, 2025, executive order that denies birthright citizenship to children born in the U.S. after Feb. 19, 2025, whose parents are either illegally present or temporary residents of the United States.

The case will center around the 14th Amendment, a provision that conferred citizenship and voting rights to freed African Americans after the Civil War. The amendment would go on to become the bedrock for immigration law throughout the country.

The 14th Amendment reads: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”

Legal analysts have said that the phrase “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” means more ...