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Supreme Court rejects Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship

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is to live under its dominion,” Roberts wrote, quoting a contemporary dictionary, “a meaning reinforced by the Clause’s territorial focus on those born ‘in’ the United States.”

He said children born on U.S. soil were, in turn, “subject to” U.S. jurisdiction, “referring to the power of the U.S. to govern those within its territory.”

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