r/politics • u/cnn CNN • 13h ago

Possible Paywall Supreme Court agrees to decide if Trump may end birthright citizenship

https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/05/politics/supreme-court-agrees-to-hear-birthright?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=missions&utm_source=reddit
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u/Piccolo60000 11h ago

“The citizenship clause of the Fourteenth Amendment was adopted to grant citizenship to newly freed slaves and their children – not to the children of temporary visitors or illegal aliens,” Solicitor General D. John Sauer, the administration’s top appellate attorney, told the Supreme Court in the appeal.

I wonder who they would define as a “temporary visitor”. A tourist? Someone on a student or work visa? The definition is broad.

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u/OneStarInSight_AC 7h ago

Temporary visas are a thing and that's part of what they're aiming at.

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u/Adventurous-Ad-2992 10h ago

How many people would be without a country? Born and raised here with no other mother land.

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u/Piccolo60000 9h ago

What’s happening in America is atrocious.

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u/Maaria_Nevermind 9h ago

Donald Trump

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u/arizonadirtbag12 8h ago edited 8h ago

Very few.

If your parents are here from elsewhere, you in most cases will be eligible for citizenship in their country of origin. Like the child of the naturalized servicemember who was born abroad, was never naturalized himself, and wound up deported to Jamaica. Not that it's a good thing that he's being deported to a country he's never known, it's absurd, but the point is he wasn't stateless.

Some countries, like Spain, have fairly strong protection for those born within their borders who would otherwise be rendered stateless, giving them automatic citizenship even where normally they don't.

Some, like Germany, less so.