In Donald Trump ‘s land a blockaid continues. According to reports, a fifth federal court has found that Donald Trump has no authority to attempt to undo birthright citizenship as guaranteed by the United States Constitution specifically the 14th amendment. In the ruling the court found that historically citizenship has never been dependent on parental status in these cases.
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But an expected appeal to the Supreme Court is almost imminent. On Friday, a fifth federal appeals court upheld the previous four rulings against Donald Trump ‘s unlawful effort to overturn birthright citizenship in the United States. Historically, birthright citizenship is a guaranteed right under the 14th amendment of the U.S constitution. To order changes would require a constitutional convention and Donald Trump does not have enough support to pull something like that off.
The ruling was announced out of the 5th circuit court of appeals in Boston whose top judge had specifics to say about the case in their ruling. “Our nation’s history of efforts to restrict birthright citizenship—from Dred Scott in the decade before the Civil War to the attempted justification for the enforcement of the Chinese Exclusion Act in Wong Kim Ark—has not been a proud one,” the ruling reads.