Trump to ask US supreme court to reconsider birthright citizenship ruling

According to The Guardian, President Trump said Wednesday he would ask the US Supreme Court to reconsider birthright citizenship under the 14th Amendment. His stated basis: a Texas hospital advertising maternity services to expectant mothers in Mexico on billboards, offering deliveries at four thousand dollars. Trump described such signage as appearing all along the border, though the Fox News report he cited actually mentioned just two billboards. It's an unusual foundation for a constitutional challenge.

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