Hello and welcome to your afternoon news update from AP. Today, the Supreme Court casts doubt on President Donald Trump’s bid to limit birthright citizenship; Artemis II fuels up for NASA’s historic return to the moon; and Trump says he’s strongly considering pulling the United States out of NATO.
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Pro and anti-Trump demonstrators rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court, before justices hear oral arguments on whether President Donald Trump can deny citizenship to children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily, on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Wednesday. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) |
Supreme Court casts doubt on Trump’s bid to limit birthright citizenship as he attends arguments |
The Supreme Court is casting doubt on the Trump administration’s restrictions on birthright citizenship in a consequential case that was magnified by the Republican president’s unparalleled presence in the courtroom. Conservative and liberal justices on Wednesday questioned whether Trump’s order declaring that children born to parents who are in the country illegally or temporarily are not U.S. citizens comports with either the Constitution or federal law. Trump, the first sitting president to attend arguments at the nation’s highest court, spent just over an hour inside the courtroom for arguments. Read more.
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