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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

Trump's Birthright Citizenship Order and the High Court

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

Society & Culture, News

42.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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The Justices prepare to debate Donald Trump's executive order denying citizenship to U.S.-born children of illegal aliens and temporary residents, including those with student or work visas, in a case that challenges a long consensus on the 14th Amendment. Plus, the court will also consider whether federal judges overstep their authority when they issue nationwide injunctions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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Corporate megastores will make more money and you pay the price.

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Learn more at guard your card.com.

0:29.6

From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch. The Supreme Court gets set to hear

0:40.6

what could be a landmark case on two big questions, whether President Trump can end birthright

0:46.5

citizenship by executive order, and whether federal judges are overstepping when they issue

0:51.9

national injunctions to stop that and many other government

0:55.7

policies. Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal. We're joined today by my

1:02.1

colleagues, columnist Alicia Finley, and editorial board member Manet Uquay-Bruwa. On his first day in

1:09.1

office, President Trump issued an executive order,

1:12.4

intending to reinterpret a longstanding consensus on the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment.

1:19.5

Ratified after the Civil War, the 14th Amendment begins this way, quote,

1:23.5

all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof,

1:29.8

are citizens of the United States."

1:33.2

With certain narrow exceptions that has long been taken a mandate, birthright citizenship

1:37.9

as a right of anyone born in the territory of the United States.

1:42.2

President Trump now wants to deny that citizenship to children

1:45.7

whose parents aren't legally and permanently in the country, including illegal aliens and also

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