Supreme Court to rule on Trump's bid to roll back birthright citizenship

According to France 24, the US Supreme Court is set to issue a major ruling this week on President Trump's attempt to eliminate birthright citizenship through executive order. The case was argued before the justices in April, with a final decision expected on Tuesday. Birthright citizenship—the constitutional guarantee that anyone born on US soil is automatically a citizen—has been part of American law since the Fourteenth Amendment in eighteen sixty-eight. If the court sides with Trump, it would mark a dramatic reversal of nearly one hundred sixty years of legal precedent. The ruling will be one of several major decisions expected from the court this week as it weighs the limits of presidential executive power.

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