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The U.S. Supreme Court said Friday justices will hear a case to decide if President Donald Trump\u2019s order to end birthright citizenship is constitutional.<\/p>\n

The court agreed to hear a case, before it is decided in a lower court, that deals with the Constitution\u2019s 14th Amendment, which grants citizenship to almost everyone born in the United States. The amendment\u2019s birthright citizenship clause has been used to give citizenship to the children of immigrants in the country without legal authorization or on a temporary basis.<\/p>\n

While a schedule for arguments has not yet been released by the court, it\u2019s likely the case would be heard sometime in early 2026.<\/p>\n

The Trump administration argued in its\u00a0petition<\/a>\u00a0to the court that the amendment, which was adopted in 1868, was meant to apply to newly freed slaves. It was not meant to provide citizenship to the children of immigrants without legal status, Solicitor General D. John Sauer wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cLong after the Clause\u2019s adoption, the mistaken view that birth on U.S. territory confers citizenship on anyone subject to the regulatory reach of U.S. law became pervasive, with destructive consequences,\u201d Sauer\u00a0wrote in the September petition.<\/a><\/p>\n

The petition also sought Supreme Court review of a related challenge to the order by the states of Washington<\/a>, Arizona, Illinois and Oregon. Friday\u2019s court order did not grant a hearing on that case.<\/p>\n

Trump signed an executive order on Jan. 20 seeking to redefine the birthright citizenship clause to exclude the children of immigrants in the country without legal authority or only temporarily. Democratic-led states and advocacy groups swiftly sued.<\/p>\n

Courts have largely blocked enforcement of the order, although the Supreme Court\u00a0in June allowed it\u00a0<\/a>to go into effect in the states that had not sued to preserve the right.<\/p>\n

In a Friday afternoon statement, the American Civil Liberties Union, a leading civil rights group, noted that several federal judges had blocked enforcement and predicted the Supreme Court would preserve birthright citizenship.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo president can change the 14th Amendment\u2019s fundamental promise of citizenship,\u201d Cecillia Wang, ACLU\u2019s national legal director, said. \u201cFor over 150 years, it has been the law and our national tradition that everyone born on U.S. soil is a citizen from birth. The federal courts have unanimously held that President Trump\u2019s executive order is contrary to the Constitution, a Supreme Court decision from 1898, and a law enacted by Congress. We look forward to putting this issue to rest once and for all in the Supreme Court this term.\u201d<\/p>\n

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